John Trapp on Job 14:20

Verſe 20. Thou prevaileſt for ever againſt him.] This and the reſt of the words to the end of the Chapter, ſome make to be the Application of the Similitudes; Others an Amplification only of what he had ſaid, Thou deſtroyeſt the hope of man. Thou muſt needs, when thou overmatcheſt and over-maſtereſt him, and art never worſted. Exod. 15.3. the Lord is called, A Man of War; the Chaldee there hath it, The Lord and Victor of Wars. And the word here rendred, Ever, cometh from a root that ſignifieth to finiſh, conquer, and triumph.

And he paſſeth.] ſcil. Out of the world by a violent or untimely death,Violen[illegible: 2 letters] mort[illegible: 1 letter] aut certe immaturà. Merlin. with as ill a will many times as the unjuſt Steward did out of his Office, as the Jebuſites did out of the Fort of Zion, or as the Devil out of the Demoniack. S[illegible: 1 letter]d voluntas Dei, neceſſit[illegible: 1 letter]s rei; he paſſeth, becauſe he can neither will nor chuſe, as they ſay.

Thou changeſt his countenance, and ſendeſt him away.] Eleganter vero mors notatur, immutandi verbo, ſaith one, Elegant is death ſet forth by changing the countenance: for death taketh away the faire and freſh colour of a man, and makes him look wan and withered, pale and ghaſtly. It is eaſ[illegible: 1 letter]e to ſee death many times (before it come) in the ſick man[illegible: 1 letter]face, in his ſharp noſtrils, thin cheeks, hollow eyes, &c.Facies Hippocratica. thoſe Harbingers of death, whereby God ſendeth for him, and ſo ſendeth him away, (extrudit & amandet, as once he did Adam out of Paradiſe. Lavaters Note here, is, Propone tihi ſemper horribileus ſpeciem mortis, ut eò minus pecces, Set before thy ſelf alwayes the horrid face of death, to reſtraine thee from ſin.