Job 15:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ because they have covered their faces with their fat and gathered fat upon their loins,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ Because he covereth his face with his fatness, And maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Because he has covered his face with his fat, adding layers of fat on his loins [giving himself up to animal pleasures],

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;

Common English Bible

²⁷ They cover their face with grease and make their loins gross.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Thickness has covered his face, and lard hangs down from his sides.

Job 15:27 Cross References

Psalm 17:10

They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the mind of this people dull, and stop their ears, and shut their eyes, so that they may not look with their eyes and listen with their ears and comprehend with their minds and turn and be healed.”

Psalm 73:7

Their eyes swell out with fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.

Deuteronomy 32:15

Jacob ate his fill; Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You grew fat, bloated, and gorged! He abandoned God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

Psalm 78:31

the anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the flower of Israel.

Job 17:10

But you, come back now, all of you, and I shall not find a sensible person among you.

Job 15:26

running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;

Psalm 119:70

Their hearts are thick like fat, but I delight in your law.

Psalm 73:4

For they have no pain; their bodies are sound and sleek.