John Trapp on Job 14:21

Verſe 21. His ſons come to honour, and he knoweth it not.] Whilſt he lyeth ſick,Omnis in Aſcanio chari ſtatcura parentis. Vir. he regardeth no earthly thing, no not what becometh of his children (formerly his greateſt care) whether they be advanced or impaired in their outward condition. As when he is dead he can take no knowledge of any thing done in this world, Iſai. 63.16 Eccleſ. 2.19. and 96. be his children or friends rich or poor, high or low, he is both ignorant and inſenſible. It was a baſe ſlander publiſhed by a Jeſuit, ſome years after Queen Elizabeths death, That as ſhe died without ſenſe or feeling of Gods mercies,Cambd. Eliz. Prefat. ſo that ſhe wiſhed ſhe might after her death hang a while in the Aire, to ſee what ſtriving would be for her Kingdome. As for that opinion of ſome Papiſts, That the dead do ſometimes returne into the Land of the living, that they know how things go here, and make report thereof to thoſe in heaven, it is contrary to the whole Scripture.