Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 22:19

19. The righteous see it , and are glad : and the innocent laugh them to scorn .

Whom God oft spares in common Calamities, and makes them to survive and see the destruction of the wicked; as Noah, Lot, &c.

Not that they insult over, or rejoyce in the ruine of any men, but because they delight in the vindication of God's honour, and justice, and holiness, which is conjoyned with the destruction of his enemies, and which is and ought to be dearer to them than all the interests of men.

They justly deride them or their vain and yet strong confidences which are now destroyed, and for their profane contempt of God and of his judgments which now they feel, and for their deep and crafty counsels which are now frustrated and turned against themselves.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 107. 42.