John Trapp on Job 1:10

Verſe 10. Haſt not thou made an bedge about him?] or, haſt thou not trenched him in, and ſecured him with thine own bare hand, as in a town of war, or tower of braſſe? thou thy ſelf either art the [illegible: 2 letters]dge, or makeſt it; and that not only about his perſon, but about his people, children, ſervants &c. yea, about his whole eſtate, ſo that there is no coming at him: and this Satan ſeemes to ſpeak very angrily. See the note on Zech. 2.5.

On every ſide] per circuitum, circumcirca. The divel could find never a gap, make never a breach. Oh the ſafety of a Saint, that goes alwaies under a double guard, the power of God without him, and the peace of God within him! The Lord himſelf is his keeper, the Lord his defence upon his right hand, Pſal. 121.5. See Pſal 91. How miraculouſly hath Geneva been upheld, a ſmall City environed with enemies, and barred out from help of other Churches! How well may we ſit and ſing, If the Lord had not been on our ſide, now may England ſay, if the Lord had not been on our ſide, when men (or rather divels in the ſhape of men) roſe up againſt us, then had they ſwallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled againſt us. Pſal. 124.1, [illegible: 1 letter] They were not our wooden walls that ſaved us &c. but thy right hand, and thine arme, and the light of thy countenance, becauſe thou hadſt a favour unto us, Pſalm 44.3. This was a better wall then that about China or Babylon, or that which David ſo ſoon leaped over by the help of his God, Pſal. 18. who is ſic omnibus attent us ut non detentus à ſingulis, ſo helpful to the whole community of his people, as that he neglecteth not any one that pertaineth unto him.

Thou haſt bleſſed the work of his hands] ſo that he hath good ſucceſſe in all his buſineſſes, all things thrive well under his hand; this the divel ſtomacked; and, becauſe he could not come at Jobs heart, fed upon his own. Malice drinketh up the moſt part of its own venome. It pleaſeth the Lord well, that his people proſper, In Pſal 139. but the divel cannot endure it. Well might Auſtin ſay, Invidia eſt vitium diabolicum, envy is a divelliſh ſin, for it transformeth men into ſo many breathing divels.

And his ſubſtance is increaſed in the land.] Heb. is broken forth; ſo that his houſe is too little to hold the precious and pleaſant riches that are therein; his grounds cannot contain the increaſe of his cattle: ruperunt horrea meſſes. In fine, there is no end of his wealth.