Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 15:27
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.
27. he covereth ] Rather, he covered; and similarly, he made collops. The words express the idea of falling into a brutish fleshliness, which causes insensibility to all that is spiritual and resistance of it, cf. Deu 32:15; Psa 73:7.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Because he covereth his face with his fatness – That is, he not only stretches out his hand against God Job 15:25 and rushes upon him as an armed foe Job 15:26, but he gives himself up to a life of luxury, gluttony, and licentiousness; and therefore, these calamities must come upon him. This is designed to be a description of a luxurious and licentious person – a man who is an enemy of God, and who, therefore, must incur his displeasure.
And maketh collops of fat – Like an ox that is fattened. The word collop properly means a small slice of meat, a piece of flesh (Webster), but here it means a thick piece, or a mass. The word is used in this sense in New England. The sense is, that he becomes excessively fat and gross – as they usually do who live in sensual indulgence and who forget God.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 27. 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 Ossam
Scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum
Ter Pater extructos disjecit fulmine montes.
VIRG. Geor. i., ver. 281.
“With mountains piled on mountains, thrice they strove
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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
27. The well-nourished body ofthe rebel is the sign of his prosperity.
collopsmasses of fat.He pampers and fattens himself with sensual indulgences; hence hisrebellion against God (Deu 32:15;1Sa 2:29).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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”, De 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
27. Maketh collops of fat on his flanks Literally, he maketh (gathereth) fat upon his loins. Job 15:27-28 contain the second reason for the destiny of the wicked, “his contentment on the ruin of another’s prosperity.” Delitzsch. The misery of others does not trouble him, he grows fat in its midst. The words are rank with the corruption of human nature. The Greeks had a word, , (ARISTOTLE, Ethics, 2:7, 15,) which appears also in the German, schadenfreude, signifying the joy which man feels in the sufferings of others. The text sets before us the anger of Heaven at the contemplation of a self-complacent, bloated sinner, “the fatness” upon whose “face” has been made out of the destruction of others a pampered human spider, surrounded by his gray web, lined with the refuse of many a gory feast. Isa 5:8; Hab 2:5; Hab 2:12. The two rich men of whom Christ speaks will recur to the reader. (Luk 12:18; Luk 16:19.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 15:27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.
Ver. 27. Because he covereth his face with his fatness ] This is given in as one chief cause of his insolence; he is a belly god, he maketh plaits upon the paunch, so Broughton rendereth it; he hath fattened his guts, so Calvin; he maketh it his business to pamper his body; his heart also is as fat as grease, Psa 119:70 . Bene curavit cutem suam in hoc mundo He takes good care of his skin in this world. (Vat.). He is waxen fat, that is, prosperity proud, and kicketh, Deu 32:15 . Pride and fulness of bread were Sodom’s twin sins, Eze 16:49 . When people are provender pricked, as we call it, they easily turn the grace of God into lasciviousness, Jdg 1:4 , and that fulness breeds forgetfulness; as the fed hawk soon forgets his master, and the moon at fullest gets farthest off the sun. Sensualists who love feasts, Jdg 5:10 , are void of the Spirit, Jdg 1:19 . A full belly maketh a foul heart. The rankest weeds grow out of the fattest soil; and those that make their gut a gulf, well, they may have collops in their flanks, but they have leanness in their souls; indeed, they have (as swine) their souls for salt only, to keep their bodies from putrefying.
And maketh collops of fat on his flanks
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
collops = lumps, or slices.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
he covereth: Job 17:10, Deu 32:15, Psa 17:10, Psa 73:7, Psa 78:31, Isa 6:10, Jer 5:28
Reciprocal: Jdg 3:17 – a very fat Jdg 3:29 – lusty Job 21:24 – His breasts
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 15:27. He covereth his face with his fatness This is mentioned as the reason of his insolent carriage toward 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. Maketh collops of fat on his flanks His only care is to pamper and please himself, and satisfy his own lusts, and in defence and pursuance of them he contends with God.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
15:27 Because he covereth his face with {q} his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.
(q) That is, he was so puffed up with prosperity and abundance for all things, that he forgave God: noting that Job in his happiness did not have the true fear of God.