26 Therefore God shall run upon him, even upon his neck, and against the most thick part of his shield.

27 Because he hath covered his face with [a]his fatness, and hath collops in his flank.

28 Though he dwell [b]in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heaps,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 15:27 That is, he was so puffed up with great prosperity and abundance of all things, that he forgat God: noting, that Job in his felicity had not the true fear of God.
  2. Job 15:28 Though he build and repair ruinous places to get him fame, yet God shall bring all to naught, and turn his great prosperity into extreme misery.

26 defiantly charging against him
    with a thick, strong shield.(A)

27 “Though his face is covered with fat
    and his waist bulges with flesh,(B)
28 he will inhabit ruined towns
    and houses where no one lives,(C)
    houses crumbling to rubble.(D)

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