Job 15:27 - Exposition

Because he covereth his face with his fatness . The ground and origin of the wicked man's audacity is his luxurious and intemperate living. In the days of his prosperity he pampered his body, freely indulged all his carnal appetites, and gave himself up to gluttony and gourmandism. This depraved his moral nature, separated between him and God, and finally produced in him the insolence and presumption described in Job 15:25 , Job 15:26 And maketh collops of fat on his flanks . The same idea, only very slightly varied, as so often in the second member of a verse.