Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 5:16

16. So the poor hath hope , and iniquity stopeth her mouth .

So this poor man obtaineth what he in some measure hoped or expected from God, to whom he committed his cause; and other poor men will be encouraged by his example to place their hope in God;

i. e. wicked men. The abstract for the concrete, as pride, deceit, injustice, are put for proud, deceitful and unrighteous men, Ier. 13. 9. 2 Pet. 3. 13.

i. e. They are silenced and confounded, being convicted of their own wickedness & folly, & finding that not the poor are got out of their nets and snares, in which they thought that they had them fast, but also the oppressours themselves are insnared in them; and all this by sudden and unexpected means.

Marginal references: Psal. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word].