John Trapp on Job 15:22

Verſe 22. He believeth not that he ſhall return out of darkneſs] He deſpondeth and deſpaireth of a better condition, ſighing out that doalful ditty,Deſperat qui ſummus eſt diffidentiae greadus. Jun. Spes & fortuna valete, he looks for no further light and delight of former comforts; he knowes that they that go down into the dark pit, cannot hope for Gods truth, Iſas. 38.18. There being left them neither hope of better, nor place of worſe.

And he is waited for of the ſword.] Or, looked upon by the ſword, which waiteth, as it were, an opportunity to ſlay him. Circumſpectans undique gladium, ſo the Vulgar; He looketh this way and that way as fearing the Murderer; his guilt repreſenting to him on all ſides nothing but naked ſwords; he believeth that they will aſſaſſine him in his bed. This was the caſe of Saul, who ſuſpected his beſt ſervants: of Dionyſius the Tyrant, who durſt not truſt his own daughter with his throat: Of Alexander Pheraeus, who would not go to bed to his wife Thebe whom he loved,Tul. Offic. lib. 2. till he had firſt ſearched the room and her pocket for edge-tools.Dan. Hiſt. 249. Of Richard the third, who after the death of his two innocent Nephewes, had fearful dreames and apprehenſions, inſomuch that he did often leap out of his bed in the dark, and catching his ſword (which alway naked ſtuck by his ſide) he did go diſtractedly about the Chamber, every where ſeeking to find out the cauſe of his own occaſioned diſquiet, ſaith the Chronologer. Tiberius felt the remorſe of conſcience ſo violent,Tacit. that he proteſted to the Senate, that he ſuffered death daily through fear of death; whereupon the Hiſtorian maketh this profitable Obſervation, Tandem fa[illegible: 1 letter]inora & f[illegible: 1 letter]agitia in ſupplicium vertuntur; Heinous ſins will at length have heavy puniſhments.