Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 21:29

29. Have ye not asked them that go by the way ? and do ye not know their Tokens ?

These are the words, either 1. Of Iob's Friends, who thus continue their former Discourse by a second Enquiry: Or rather 2. Of Iob himself,, who answers one question with another. You may learn this, which is the matter of our debate, to wit, that good men are oft afflicted, and that wicked men do commonly live and die in great prosperity, and are not punished in this World, even from them that go by the way, i. e. either from Travellers, who having seen, and observed many Persons, and places, and events, are more capable Judges of this matter; or from any person that passeth along the high-way, from every one that you meet with. It is so vulgar and trivial a thing, that no man of common sense is ignorant of it.

i. e. The Examples, or Evidences, or Signs of this truth, which they that go by the way can produce. They will shew here and there in divers places the goodly Houses and Castles, and other Monuments of Power and dignity, which wicked Potentates have erected, and to this day do possess, and in which divers of them live and die. He alludes here to those Tokens▪ which are set up in high ways for the direction of those who travel in them.