Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 24:20

20. The womb shall forget him , the worm shall feed sweetly on him , he shall be no more remembred , and wickedness shall be broken as a tree .

His Mother that bare him in her Womb, and much more the rest of his Friends, shall seldom or never remember or mention him; to wit, with honour and comfort, but shall rather be afraid and ashamed to own their Relation to one that lived such a vile and wretched life, and died such an accursed death. This he shall have instead of all that Honour and Renown which he thirsted and laboured for, and expected should persume his Name and Memory.

This proud and insolent Tyrant that preyed upon all his Neighbours, v. 2. 3, &c. shall himself become a prey and a sweet Morsel to the contemptible Worms.

To wit, with Honour, or so as he desired and hoped, but his Name shall rot, and scarce ever be mentioned but with Infamy and Execration.

i. e. The wicked man, of whom he is here treating; the Abstract being put for the Concrete, of which many Instances have been formerly given.

Broken to pieces, or violently broken down, as the word signifies. He shall be utterly and irrecoverably destroyed. And this expression plainly sheweth that the former Clauses are not to be understood of the Sinner's happiness in an easie and comfortable death, but of his cursed and miserable end.

Which being once broken either by its own weight or by some violent wind, or by the hand of man, never groweth again.

Marginal references: Heb. is sweet to him. Ch. 21. 33.