Like his own dung; which men cast away with contempt and abhorrency. Compare 1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 9:37. They which have seen him, with admiration at his felicity. Where is he? i.e. he is no where to be found; he is utterly lost and gone. read more
As a dream; which for the present makes a great show and noise, and highly affects the fancy, but hath nothing solid nor permanent in it; for as soon as the man awakes all vanisheth, and the remembrance of it is quickly lost. Shall not be found; the man will be utterly lost and gone, together with all his riches and glory. As a vision of the night; which appears to a man in the night and in his sleep. read more
i.e. It shall not acknowledge nor contain him. A figure called prosopopaeia, as Job 7:10. Or, neither shall it (i.e. the eye last mentioned) behold him any more in his place. read more
Shall seek to please the poor; either, 1. To get some small relief from them in their extreme necessity. Or rather, 2. Lest they should revenge themselves of them for the great and many injuries which their father did them, or seek to the magistrate for reparations. His hands shall restore their goods, by the sentence of the judge, to whom the oppressed poor will appeal, notwithstanding all their entreaties and endeavours to dissuade them from so-doing. read more
His bones, i.e. his whole body, even the strongest parts of it, which may seem most remote from danger. Of the sin of his youth, Heb. of his youth, i.e. of his youthful pleasures and lusts, by a metonymy of the subject. And this may be understood either, 1. Of the sins themselves, that he shall persevere in his youthful lusts even in old age, and shall die without repentance. Or rather, 2. Of the punishment of his sins, of which he is speaking both in the foregoing and following verses. He... read more
In his mouth, i.e. to his taste, though it greatly please him for the present. Though he hide it under his tongue; as an epicure doth a sweet morsel, which he is loth to swallow, and therefore keeps and rolls it about his mouth that he may longer enjoy the pleasure of it: though he be highly pleased with his lusts, and cleave to them in hearty love, and resolve to hold them fast, and improve them to the greatest delight and advantage. read more
Though he spare it, i.e. will not part with it; or gratify and obey it, instead of subduing and mortifying it. Keep it still within his mouth, to suck out all the sweetness or benefit of it, though it be very delightful to him. read more
Turned into another nature or quality, from sweet to bitter. The gall of asps, i.e. exceeding bitter and pernicious. Gall is most bitter; the gall of serpents is full of poison, which from thence is conveyed to their mouths by veins, as Pliny observes; and the poison of asps is most dangerous, and within a few hours kills without remedy. read more
He shall vomit them up again, i.e. be forced to restore them with great shame and torment, as gluttons sometimes do loathe, and with grief and pain cast up, that meat which they have eaten and swallowed down with much greediness and delight. If no man’s hand can reach him, God shall find him out, and punish him severely. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:6
Though he be advanced to great dignity and authority in the world. read more