John Trapp on Job 15:27
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Job15:27
Verſe 27. Becauſe he covereth his face with his fatneſſe.] This is given in as one chief cauſe of his inſolency; he is a belly-god, he maketh plaits upon the panch, ſo Broughron rendreth it: He hath larded his guts, ſo Calvin: He maketh it his buſineſſe to pamper his body; his heart alſo is fat as greaſe. Pſal. 119.70.Benè curavit cutem ſuam in hoc munde. Vat. He is waxen fat, that is proſperity-proud, and kicketh, Dent. 32.15. Pride and fulneſſe of bread were Sodoms twin-ſins. Ezek. 16.49. When people are Provender-prick'd, (as we call it) they eaſily turn the grace of God into laſciviouſneſſe. Jude 4. and that fulneſſe breeds forgetfulneſſe; as the fed Hawk ſoon forgets his Maſter, and the Moon at fulleſt gets furtheſt off the Sun. Senſualliſts who love feaſt, Judg. 14.10. are void of the Spirit, Jude 19. A full belly maketh a fowle heart. The rankeſt weeds grow out of the fatteſt ſoil: and thoſe that make their gut a gulph, well they may have collops in their flanks, but they have leanneſſe in their ſoules; indeed they have (as Swine) their ſoules for ſalt onely, to keep their bodies from putrefying.
And maketh collops of fat on his flanks.] Heb And maketh mouths, that is, wrinkles upon his flanks: He is active about it, and makes it his buſineſſe to make proviſion for the fleſh, Rom. 13. ult. He labours for the meat that periſheth, Joh 16.27. He lives to eat, and laughs himſelf fat, till his heart now hardned by the deceit fulneſs of his ſin, becomes as inſenſible as Dionyſius the Heracleot, who felt not when men thruſt needles into his fat belly; or thoſe Beares in Pliny, that could not be ſtirred with the ſharpeſt prickles.
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