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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:8

Job 21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Ver. 8. Their seed is established in their sight with them ] Some understand it of their seed sown in the fields, nor blasted nor wasted, but timely gathered into their barns and granaries; and so by offspring, Germina, they, taking it literally, conceive to be meant their plants, trees, flowers, fruits, all which come kindly, and grow to their minds. But better interpret it of their children... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:9

Job 21:9 Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them. Ver. 9. Their houses are safe from fear ] Seculi laetitia est impunita nequitia. No domestic discords, no foreign disturbances, but peaceable possession and enjoyment of what they have; as much welfare as David wished to Nabal, 1 Samuel 25:5 : Thus shall ye say to him that lives (that is, that lives prosperously, for that is the only life), Peace be to thee, and to thine house, and to all that thou hast. ... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:10

Job 21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. Ver. 10. Their bull gendereth, and faileth not, &c. ] All things hit, and nothing misseth to make them happy and wealthy; they have profit and pleasure at will, the world comes tumbling in upon them, as towns were said to come in to Timotheus’ toils while he slept (Plut. in Sulla), and so they seem to be the only heirs of those promises, Exodus 23:26 , "There shall nothing cast their young, nor be... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:11

Job 21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. Ver. 11. They send forth their little ones like a flock ] Sunt qui de eorum vitulis intelligunt recens natis, saith Mercer. Some understand it to be young calves, but better of young children, which have here their name from a root which signifieth wickedness, naughtiness, to show what little ones are, not innocents, as we call them, not pueri quasi puri; νηπιος , is both a fool and a child. The first... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:12

Job 21:12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. Ver. 12. They take the timbrel and the harp ] They take them, and are taken with them, being melted in sensual delights, which wise men slight. The philosopher told the fiddlers that he could be merry without music. Aristotle said, Jupiter is happy, and yet no musician. One in Plutarch saith of the Scythians, that though they had no music nor vines among them, yet they had God. It is here alleged, as a piece of... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:13

Job 21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Ver. 13. They spend their days in wealth ] Or, in mirth. Heb. In good. They wallow in wealth, and have the world at their will, even more than heart could wish, as David phraseth it in Psalms 73:2-12 , which may well serve for a comment upon this text; and the rich glutton for an instance. He in his lifetime received good things, and in a moment went down to the grave, Luke 16:25 . True it is, that this is not... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:14

Job 21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. Ver. 14. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us ] Lest any should think, saith Merlin here, that Job speaks of such wicked as used a moderation in sinning, and (as the historian said of the emperor) rather lacked vice than were virtuous. Magis extra vitia, quam cum virtutibus (Tacit.). He describeth their great impiety by a rhetorical imitation, expressing the language of their heart,... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:15

Job 21:15 What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? Ver. 15. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? ] Here the rottenness of their hearts blistereth out at the lips of these rich wretches, these fat bulls of Bashan, such as was Pharaoh, that sturdy rebel, who asked this very question in the text, What, or who, is the Almighty? &c., Exodus 5:2 ; and hath a large reply made him by one plague upon another, till he was... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:16

Job 21:16 Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Ver. 16. Lo, their good is not in their hand ] That is, they are not enriched by their own industry, prudence, piety, &c., but God hath exalted them thus, that he may bring them down again with the greater poise; so some sense the text. Others thus, Their good is not in their hand; that is, they are no masters of them, but are mastered by them; they are servants to their wealth, as the Persian... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:17

Job 21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger. Ver. 17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! ] q.d. I confess that which you say concerning God’s judgments upon the wicked to be sometimes true in this world (Diod.); yet it is not so continually nor ordinarily, but very oft their lamp is extinguished, their comforts damped, and hopes of better dashed; they are all on the sudden left in... read more

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:8

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:9

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:10

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:11

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:12

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:13

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:14

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:15

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:16

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 21:17

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