Job 18

Job 18:2

MAke an end] you Iob, and your partakers, see Iob 35. 4.

Job 18:3

As beasts] see Iob 17. 4 [reputed] the Heb are wee unclean, vile, and defiled in your sight?

Job 18:4

Hee teareth] the Italian, O thou who tearest, thou Iob that doest so violently bestirre thy selfe, canst thou cause God to give over his wise and just governing of the World? or canst thou move him from his constant justice, which is as firme as a rock?

Job 18:5

The light] their glory and happinesse shall tterly perish.

Job 18:7

The steps] their pride shall bee abated and their high enterprises shall be stayed.

Job 18:8

He is cast] tho Italian, they shall cast themselves; they shall insnare themselves in dangers, which they shall not afterwards know how to get out of.

Job 18:12

His strength] his strong body shall decay through misery, and all meanes of subsisting shall be quite taken away from him.

Job 18:13

The first borne] an Hebrew phrase, that is to say, the most tragick and cruell kinde of death, see Isaiah 14:30. Or the devill prince of death, and the first condemned unto it, Hebrews 2:14. as Christ is the first borne of the resurrection, Colossians 1:18. Revelation 1:5.

Job 18:14

Rooted out] they shall be past all hope of ever being re-established in their former state there shall be nothing left them, whereon to build any confidence, Iob 20. 21. [bring him]this despaire shall bring him to an unhappy death, followed with the everlasting pains of hell.

Job 18:15

It is none] where they shall be bond-men, and no more masters, which shall encrease their griefe: [brimstone] in signe of acurse, to condemne that land to bee for ever barren, Deuteronomy 29:23. Isaiah 34:9.

Job 18:16

Beneath] a proverbiall kinde of speech taken from trees, as Iob 29. 19 Isaiah 5:24. Amos 2:9. Malachi 4:1. the meaning is, hee shall bee deprived of Gods grace, which is the root of all happinesse, and of his blessing which is the top of it.

Job 18:20

At his day] the Italian, their day, namely the day of Gods iudgements upon them: [went before] they that lived in the dayes of those judgements, and were spectators of them.

Job 18:21

That knoweth not] the Italian, that know not, that have quite extinguished his light out of their minds, and blotted all respect and feare of him out of their heart Rom. 1. 21. 28. 1 Corinthians 15:34. Titus 1:16.