m In theſe words he deſcribes either, ſition and deportment, that ſuch perſons are light and frothy in their ſpirits; or ſwife, or hafy to do evil, or unſtable in their ways as #he waters, or upon the face of the waters ; t. e. like the foam or froath, or any other light thing which ſwims upon the top of the waters. Or rather, 2. His miſerable condition, of which he manifeſtly ſpeaks 1n the next words, an1in the two next Verſes. For though Job conſtantly affirms and maintains it againſt his Friends, that many ungodly men do proſper and eſcape puniſhment inthis lite; yet withal he obſerves and affert:, that God will certainly ſooner or later puniſh them, and
that he ſometimes doth it here, cutting them off by crue! and untime- Ay deaths, or otherwiſe inflifting ſome notable Judgment upon them 3 of which he alſo ſpeaks Chap- 21. 17. Oe- So the ſenile is, He 7s ſwift, i. e. he quickly paſſeth away with all his glory, as the waters, which never ſiay in one place, but are alwiſe haſting and running a- way 3 Orlike a Ship, or any other thing which ſwimmeth «pn the face of the waters : Though he ſeems to ſtand as firm and unmovyeable as a Rock, and to have taken deep rooting in the Earth. yet he 1s ſaddently and unexpeftedly removed and pulled up by the roots. n Or his; for he ſtill ſpeaks of the ſame perſon, though with a change of the number, which is moſt familiar in this Book, and elſe where 1n Scripture, o Or, part, i. e. his Habitation and Eſtate, which he left behind him, þ Is really accurſed by God, and is by allMen who live nearit, or obſcrveit, pronounced accurſed, becauſe of the remarkable Judgments of God upon it, 2nd upon his Poſterity or Family to which he left it, and from whom it is ſtrangely and ſuddenly alienated. 9 7 e. He ſhall never more ſee or enjoy his Vineyards, or other pleaſant places and things, which ſeem to be comprehended under this par- ticular, 19 Drought andheat + conſume the ſnow-water ; /
doth the grave thoſe which have ſinned r.
r As the Snow, though it doth for a time lye upon the Ground, yet at laſt is diflolved into Water by the heat of the S2aſon,\atid that Water quickly ſwailowed up by the Earth when It is dry avd thirſty : So ungodly ſinners, though they live and proſper for a ſeaſon, yet at laſt they ſhall go into the Grave, which will conſume them, together with all their Hopes and Comforts» Their jolly Life 1s attended with a ſad and oft times ſudden and violent Death, not with ſuch a death as the godly die, which perfetts them and brings them to Happineſs, but witha conſuming and never dying death.
20 The womb ſhall forget him "s, the worm Þ (hall feed ſweetly on him 7, he ſhall be no more remembred
#, and wickedneſs x ſhall be broken y as a tree z.
s His Mother thatbare him in her Womb, and much more the reft of his Friends, ſhall ſeldom or never remember or mention him ; to wit, with honour and comfort, but ſhall ratherbe airaid and aſha- med to own their Relation to one that lived ſach a vile and wretched Life, and dyed ſuch an accurſed Death, This he ſhall have in ſtead of all that Honour and Renown which he thriſted and laboured for, and expected ſhould perfume his Name and Memory. # This proud and inſolent Tyrant that preyed upon all his Neighbours, v. 2, 3, 0c ſhall himſelf become a prey and a ſweet morſel to the contemptible
- Worms. #4. To wit, with Honour, cr ſo as he defired and hoped, but
his nawe fhall rot, and ſcarce ever be mentioned but with Infamy and Execration, x #. & The wicked man, of whom he is here treating 3 the abſtra@ being,put for the Concrete, of which many Inſtances have been formerly given; y Broken to pieces, or violently broken ?down as the wors ſignifies, He ſhall be utterly and irrecoverably deſtroyed. And this expreſſion plainly ſheweth. that the former Clauſes are not to be underſtood of the finner's happineſs in an eafie and confortable death, but of his curſed and miſerable end. 7 Which being once broken, either by its own weight, or by ſome violent wind, or by the hand of mn, never groxeth again.
> 21 He « evilentreateth bthe barren zhat beareth not
and doth not good tothe widow. aEither 1. God who isoft underſte>d. who having cut off his per- ſon, and brought him to his Grave, continues his Jud2ments upon his Wife or Widow, and Family. Or rather, the Oppr: flor, who is the Principal Subj:-& of almoſt all that is ſaid in this Chapter 3 whoſe great and manifold wickedneſs Js5 deſcribed fromv, 2. to 18. where he procee!s to relate the Judgments of God upon him for h:s ſins ; which having done, v. 18.19, 20. he here returns to the declaration of his further Wickedneſses the Cauſe of theſe Judgments. 65 Or feed- eth upen, or d?v'ureth, or breaketh in pieces 3 for all theſc the word ſigni- fieth, and all come to one and the ſame thing. c Barreneeſs was eſtec- meda Curſe and Reproach; and ſo he added affliftion to the afflicted, whom he ſhould have piticd and helped . But becauſe ſuca had no Children, and the Widows no Husbands, to defend or avenge their Cauſe, he exerciſed Cruelty-upon theme & Either, 1. He did her much wrong and harm, it being uſual in Scripture under ſuch Nega tive Expreſſions to contain the Affirmation of the contrary; as Exod, 20.7. Prov. 19. 21. & 28.21. And ſo this branch anſwers to the former, of evil-entreating. Or, 2. He afforded her no help, or ad- yice, or comfort in her Diſtreiſes : And ſo he intimateth the great- neſs of Omiſſion-fins, and that the common negle& or cotempt of plain and poſitive Duties, whether of Piety to God or of Charity to men isto be reckoned among highand ha'nous Crimes,
22 He draweth e alſo the mighty f withhis power's: he riſeth up-b, and || no mar is {ure of life 5.
e Either intohis Net, as Pſalm 20. 9, or to his Party, to affiſt and ſerve himin his Enterprizes. f Who are mighty in Place, or Wealth, or Power : He praQiſeth upon theſe, as wellas upon the Poor. g Which being greater than theirs,he ſoon forceth them to comply with his defires and demands. þ To wit, againſt any man, as this Phraſe is uſed, Pſalm. 18- 38. & 44. 5. Whenhe ſets himſelf againſt 2 man. and reſolves to deſtroy him?! z, e. None of them whom he ſo oppoſeth can be ſecure or confident of holding his life, but al: fuch give up themſelves for loſt men, as knowing they cannot reſiſt his greater mizht : Compare Dent. 28, 26.
23 Theugh ir be given him #0 be in ſafety, whereon