Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 11:20

20. But the eyes of the wicked shall fail , and they shall not escape , and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost .

Or, be consumed, either with grief and tears for their sore Calamities: Or with long looking for what they shall never attain, as this phrase is taken, Psalm 69, 3. Ier. 14. 6. Lament. 4. 17. And this shall be thy condition, O Iob, if thou persistest in thine impiety.

They shall never obtain deliverance out of their Distresses, but shall perish in them.

i. e. Shall be as vain and desperate as the hope of life is in a man, when he is at the very point of death. Or, as a puff of breath, which is gone in a moment without all hopes of recovery.

Marginal references: Heb. flig[illegible: 1+ letters] shall perish from them.; Ch. 8. 14. & 18. 14.; Or, a p[illegible: 1+ letters]ff of breath.