Teks -- Job 15:27 (NET)

15:27 Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

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Wesley: Job 15:27 - Because

This is mentioned as the reason of his insolent carriage towards God, because he was fat, rich, potent, and successful, as that expression signifies, Deu 32:15; Psa 78:31; Jer 46:21. His great prosperity made him proud and secure, and regardless of God and men.

Wesley: Job 15:27 - Fat

His only care is to pamper himself.

JFB: Job 15:27

The well-nourished body of the rebel is the sign of his prosperity.

JFB: Job 15:27 - collops

Masses of fat. He pampers and fattens himself with sensual indulgences; hence his rebellion against God (Deu 32:15; 1Sa 2:29).

Clarke: Job 15:27 - Because he covereth his face

Because he covereth his face - He has lived in luxury and excess; and like a man overloaded with flesh, he cannot defend himself against the strong gripe of his adversary. The Arabic, for maketh collops of fat on his flanks, has (Arabic) He lays the Pleiades upon the Hyades, or, He places Surreea upon aiyuk, a proverbial expression for, His ambition is boundless; He aspires as high as heaven; His head touches the stars; or, is like the giants of old, who were fabled to have attempted to scale heaven by placing one high mountain upon another: -

Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossa

Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympu

Ter Pater extructos disjecit fulmine montes

Virg. Geor. i., ver. 281

"With mountains piled on mountains, thrice they strov

To scale the steepy battlements of Jove

And thrice his lightning and red thunder play’ d

And their demolished works in ruins laid.

Dryden

To the lust of power and the schemes of ambition there are no bounds; but see the end of such persons: the haughty spirit precedes a fall; their palaces become desolate; and their heaven is reduced to a chaos.

TSK: Job 15:27 - he covereth

he covereth : Job 17:10; Deu 32:15; Psa 17:10, Psa 73:7, Psa 78:31; Isa 6:10; Jer 5:28

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Poole: Job 15:27 - With his fatness // Maketh collops of fat on his flanks

With his fatness: this is mentioned as the reason of his insolent carriage towards God, because he was fat, i.e. rich, and potent, and successful, as that expression signifies, Deu 32:15 Psa 78:31 Jer 46:21 . His great prosperity made him proud and secure, and regardless of God and men.

Maketh collops of fat on his flanks his only care and study is to pamper and please himself, and obey his own mind and lusts, and in defence and pursuance of them he contends with God.

Gill: Job 15:27 - Because he covereth his face with his fatness // and maketh collops of fat in his flanks

Because he covereth his face with his fatness,.... He has no fear of God, nor shame for his sin; he blushes not to rise up against God in the manner he does, because his eyes stand out with fatness; or rather his face is covered with it, that is, he abounds in riches, he enjoys great prosperity, a large affluence of all good things; and this makes him haughty and imperious, neither to fear God, nor regard man like Jeshurun, who, when he "waxed fat, was grown thick, and covered with fatness, kicked" against God, and his providences, sinned and rebelled against him; "forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation", Deu 32:15; and to the same purpose is the following clause:

and maketh collops of fat in his flanks; a description of a very fat man, and one that pampers the flesh, and indulges himself in eating and drinking; and, figuratively, of one that abounds in the good things of this world, and which make him vain and proud, and lead him on to commit sin in a bold and daring way, promising himself impunity in it, but without any just ground for it, as the following verses show; perhaps some respect may be had to Job's children feasting with one another in their prosperity, which led on to sin, and issued in their ruin, as Eliphaz would suggest.