John Trapp on Job 11:18

Verſe 18. And thou ſhalt be ſecure, becauſe there is hope] It's a ſpiritual ſecurity that's here promiſed, which is a fruit of faith, quelling and killing diſtracting and diſtruſtful fears; faith, I ſay, unfaigned 1 Tim. 1.5. which produceth hope unfailable Rom. 5.5. Hope is the daughter of faith, but ſuch as is a ſtaffe to her aged mother.

Yea, thou ſhalt dig about thee] That is (ſaith one Interpreter) by ſearching to find out how to do all things for the beſt, thou ſhalt proſper in all. Others ſenſe it thus,Eugub. Tigur. thou ſhalt be ſecure as they that lye in trenches. Rabbi David, Thou ſhalt dig only about thy city, and not need to make any walls about it for thy ſecurity. Others,Lavater. thou ſhalt labour hard, and ſleep ſoundly thereupon. Or thus, God ſhall ſo encompaſſe thee with his ſafe protection, as if thou doſt but dig a place to pitch thy tent in, thou ſhalt enjoy thy ſelf ſafelier therein then otherwiſe thou wouldſt do in a walled city.

And thou ſhalt take thy reſt] God will keep off thoſe gnats of cares and fears, that might diſquiet thee. We read of ſome great Princes that could not ſleep; as Ahaſuerus Esth. 6.1.Daniel Thulin. Richard the third of England; and Charls the ninth of Franc, after that barbarous Maſſacre at Paris: but David could Pſalm 3. and 4. becauſe God was his keeper. No marvel that Philip ſleepeth ſoundly, when Antipater (his faſt friend) watched by him the while. Job and all Gods beloved ones ſhall ſleep on both ears, Pſalm 127.2. reſt ſecurely and comfortably. What ſhould hinder,In utramvis aurem. when the keeper of Iſrael, who neither ſlumbreth nor ſleepeth, ſhall watch over them for good?