Job 21

Job 21:4

My complaint] seeing it is God who in an extraordinary manner doth afflict me, how should 〈◊〉 observe any measure in my complaints, Iob 6. 2.

Job 21:13

In a moment] without much languishing, which good men doe oftentimes in their calamities, Iob 9. 23 and 24. 19 Psal. 73. 4.

Job 21:15

What is the] hee seemeth to reherse the very words of Pharaoh, Exodus 5:2.

Job 21:16

Their good] being perswaded they can have all things at command, and all that they want to be within the compasse of their power; they care not for praying to God for to desire those things at his hands: [the counsell] God forbid that ever I 〈…〉ould consent to any such wickednesse, Iob. 22. 18.

Job 21:17

How often] I confesse that which you say, concerning Gods iudgements upon the wicked, to bee sometimes true in this world, yet it is not so continually, nor ordinarily.

Job 21:21

For what] if you tell mee that at the last God sheweth his vengeance upon the children of the wicked; I answer you, that the wicked man can not have any notice of that, after his death, see Iob 14. 21. and 24. 0.

Job 21:22

Teach] these wayes of God are incomprehensible, the action it selfe is manifest, but the hidden reason of it is not subject to mens censures nor corrections: [hee judgeth] hee is the soveraign Lord and judge of the world, above all worldly power and greatnesse; wherefore he ought to be acknowledged to be the absolute rule of all wisdome and righteousnesse, Genesis 18:25. Iob 8. 3. and 34. 12. 17. 19 Romans 3:5.

Job 21:23

One] namely the wicked.

Job 21:24

His breasts] the Italian, his milke pailes, figurative termes, meaning that hee enjoyeth all good things at his will and pleasure.

Job 21:25

And another] namely a good man, as I my selfe am.

Job 21:26

They shall] after so many differences between them in this life, they come both to be alike in their death, namely for bodily death and outward appearance, see Iob 14. 19. Ecclesiastes 9:3.

Job 21:27

I know] I doe foresee what you meane to say to mee, namely, that at the last the wicked are destroyed after some transitory prosperity: and I tell you contrariwise, that prosperity doth not forsake them till death.

Job 21:29

Have ye not asked] men of experience, such as have gone many voyages will shew you, that for the most part the wicked doe prosper in the world.

Job 21:30

Of wrath] namely Gods wrath, by generall and expresse judgements.

Job 21:31

There seemes to bee no witnesse nor iudge against him, contrary to Zophars saying, Iob 20. 28.

Job 21:32

Remaine in the tombe] the Italian, watch nothing but the heape, hee hath lost all knowledge and feeling of worldly things, as Iob 14. 22.

Job 21:33

The clodds] hee lieth sweetly in the ground, or in monuments made of clodds after the ancient fashion, and troubles himselfe no more with worldly affaires, Iob 24. 20.: [after him]he is followed by many in his death, as many have gone before him.

Job 21:34

In vaine] proceeding with mee thus; thou art grievously afflicted, therefore thou art wicked: convert therefore, and thou shalt be restored. Wherein are two falshoods: the one, that all those who are afflicted are wicked; and the other, that God doth alwayes corporally relieve the penitent, see Iob 16. 2. [there remaineth] you are alwayes possessed with a bad opinion of mee, only thinking to make yourselves thereby acceptable to God, Iob 13. 7.