John Trapp on Job 14:10

Verſe 10. But man dieth and waſteth away] Heb. ſtrong and luſty man, Homo quantumvis roouſtus. Vat. dieth and waſteth away, or is cut off, ſc. worſe then a tree, for he growes no more, or is diſcomfited, vanquiſhed, (as Exod. 17.13. and 32.18.) ſc. by death, and ſo carried clean out of this world.

Yea, man giveth up the ghoſt] Homo vulgaris & plebeius; All of all ſorts muſt die, whether noble, or ignoble, as Rabbi Abraham here obſerveth. Job is very much in this diſcourſe about death: and ſurely, as Nazianzen wiſheth of hell, ſo could I of death, Ʋtinam ubique de morte diſſereretur! oh that it were more in mens minds and mouths then it is!

And where is he?] q. d. No where above ground; or if he be, putrefit & teterrimè olet, he putrifies and ſtinks filthily: and as his life is taken away, ſo is his glory: yea, being once out of ſight, he growes by little and little out of mind too, little thought of, leſs ſpoken of, many times not ſo much as his name mentioned or remembred in the next generation, Eccleſ. 1.11. There is no remembrance of former things (or men) neither ſhall there be any remembrance &c. So Eccleſ. 2.16. and 8.10. and 9.5. Hence the ſtate of the dead is called the land of forgetfulneſſe, Pſalm 88.12. And Pſalm 31.12. I am forgotten, as a dead man out of mind: Heathens alſo ſay the ſame.Hor. lib. 4. Carm. 7.

Cum ſomel occideris, & de te ſplendida Minos Fecerit arbitria, Non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te Restituet pietas.