27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
27 "Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,
27 because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
27 "Even if they're the picture of health, trim and fit and youthful,
27 "Though he has covered his face with his fatness, And made his waist heavy with fat,
27 "These wicked people are heavy and prosperous; their waists bulge with fat.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 15:27
Commentary on Job 15:17-35
(Read Job 15:17-35)
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? Then let the mischiefs which befal others, be our warnings. Though no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby. No calamity, no trouble, however heavy, however severe, can rob a follower of the Lord of his favour. What shall separate him from the love of Christ?