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Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins.
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The Symbolism of Fatness
Commentators explain that the "fatness" described here is not merely physical but symbolic. It represents a life of excessive luxury, self-indulgence, and material prosperity that leads a person to forget God and live in opposition to Him, thereby inviting divine judgment.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Because he covers his face with his fatness - That is, he not only stretches out his hand against God (Job 15:25) and r…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Because he covers his face with his fatness He has no fear of God, nor shame for his sin; he blushes not to rise up …
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable, from which he would infer that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore that Jo…
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13th Century
Catholic
After Eliphaz had censured Job for provoking God to an argument, which he thought amounted to a presumption of wisdom, he now censures him for a pr…
