Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 21:30

30. That the wicked is reserved to the day of Destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of Wrath .

This is the thing which they might learn of Passengers.

Or with-held or kept back, to wit, from falling into common Calamities, though in truth he be not so much kept from Evil, as kept for evil, he is reserved from a less▪ that he may be swallowed up in a greater misery, as Pharaoh was kept from the other Plagues that he might be drowned in the Sea.

He speaketh of the same person; only the singular number is changed into the plural, possibly to intimate, that although for the present only some wicked men were punished, yet then all of them should suffer.

To wit, by the conduct of Gods Providence and Justice, as malefactors are brought forth from Prison to Judgment and Execution, though they be brought to it slowly, and by degrees, and with some kind of Pomp and State, as this word signifies.

Heb. To the day of Wrath, i. e. of special and extraordinary Wrath, either to some terrible and desolating Judgments, which God sometimes sends upon wicked Princes or People: Or, to the day of the last and general Judgment, which is called in Scripture the day of Wrath: For the day of the general Resurrection and Judgment was not unknown to Iob and his Friends, as appears from Ch. 19. 25, &c. and other passages of this Book.

Marginal references: Prov. 16. 4.; Heb. the day of Wrath.