Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 12:6

6. The tabernacles of robbers prosper , and they that provoke God are secure ; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly .

Thy Opinion delivered Chap. 11. 14, &c. is confuted by daily experience; which shews that the most wicked and injurious, and impudent Oppressors, Tyrants and Robbers, are so far from meeting with those Disappointments and Miseries, wherewith thou didst threaten them▪ that they commonly succeed in their cursed Enterprizes, and flourish in Wealth and Glory, and fill their Houses with the Goods of others which they violently took away; whereof the Chaldeans and Sabeans, ch. 1. 15. 17. are a present and pregnant Evidence.

They whose common practice it is to despise and provoke God, are confident and secure, live without danger or fear.

So far is God from crushing such persons, that he seems to favour them with wonderful success, and by his special and more than common Providence, puts into their hands the opportunities which they seek, and the persons and goods of other more righteous men which they lie in wait for.

Marginal references: Ch. 21. 7. Psal. 37. 1. 35. & 92. 7. Jer. 12. 1. Mal. 3. 15.