John Trapp on Job 14:13

Verſe 13. O that thou wouldſt hide me in the grave] As in a ſweet and ſafe repoſitory, ſanctuary!Sepulchrum eſt quaſi ſcrinium vel capſa in quam reponitur corpus. my ſoul mean-while living and raigning with thee in heaven, expecting a glorious Reſurrection, and ſaying, How long, Lord, Holy, and True? The fable or fancy of Pſychopannychia hath been long ſince hiſſed out, though lately revived by ſome Libertines, that laſt brood of Beelzebub; our Mortaliſts eſpecially, who ſay, that the body and ſoul die together. But what ſaith the Apoſtle, Rom. 8.10? If Chriſt be in you, the body is dead becauſe of ſinne; but the ſpirit is life becauſe of righteouſneſſe. Now that Job thus woos death, and petitions for the grave, it is manifeſt that he ſaw ſome good in it, and that he promiſed himſelf by it Malorum ademptionem, bonorum adeptionem, freedom from evil, and fulneſſe of good: we ſhould learn to familiarize death to our ſelves, and put the grave under the faireſt and eaſieſt apprehenſions, think we hear God beſpeaking us as once hee did Jacob, Fear not to go down to Egypt (ſo down to the grave) for I will go with thee, and will ſurely bring thee up again, Gen. 46.4. Or as he did his labouring Church, Iſa. 26.20. Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and ſhut thy doors about thee: hide thy ſelf, as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpaſt.

That thou wouldſt keep me ſecret] In limbo Patrum, ſay the Papiſts, in parabola ovis capras ſuas quaerentes.

Ʋntil thy wrath be paſſed] For it is ſuch, as I can of my ſelf neither avoid nor abide. Turn it away therefore, or turn it into gentleneſſe and kindneſſe, Pſal 6.4. and be friends again, Jer. 2.35. Or, ſecret and ſecure me til the reſurrection, when all thy wrath will be gone from me.

That thou wouldſt appoint me a ſet time] Heb. ſet me a ſtatute: ſet down even what time thou pleaſeſt, either to ſend me to bed, or to call me up again, ſo that thou wilt but be ſure at laſt to remember me.

And remember me] Job is willing to die out of the world, but to die out of Gods memory; to be out of ſight, but not out of mind; that God ſhould bury him in the grave, but not bury his thoughts of him: he could be content to be free among the dead, free of that company, but not as the ſlain that lie in the grave, whom God remembreth no more, Pſal. 88.5. Job would be remembred for good, as Nehemiah prayeth, and be dealt with as Moſes was, whoſe body once hid in the valley of Moab, did afterwards appear glorious in Mount Tabor at the transfiguration.