Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 34:9

9. For he hath said , It profiteth a man nothing, that he should delight himself with God .

Not absolutely and in express terms, but by unforced consequence, and as concerning this life, and with reference to himself; because he said that good Men were no less, nay sometimes more miserable here than the wicked, Ch. 9. 22, &c & 30. 26. and that for his part he was no gainer as to this life by his Piety, but a loser, and that God shewed him no more kindness and compassion than he usually did to the vilest of men. Which was a very unthankful and ungodly opinion and expression, seeing godliness hath the promise of this life as well as of that to come, and Iob had such supports, and such assurances of his own uprightness and of his future happiness, as he confesseth, as were and should have been accounted even for the present a greater comfort, and profit than all which this World can afford.

That he should choose and delight to walk with God, and make it his chief care and business to please him and to do his commandments: which is the true and proper Character of a godly Man.

Marginal references: Chap. 9. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. & 35. 3.