John Trapp on Job 15:35

Verſe 35. They conceive miſchief, and bring forth vanity] Here Eliphaz for a cloſe, by an elegant and uſual Metaphor taken from child bearing, ſheweth that all ſuch as conceive with guile or wrong to others, by that time they have reckoned their months aright, though they grow never ſo big, ſhall bring forth nothing but wind and vanity. Like as a woman that thinks ſhe hath conceived and is deceived pleaſeth her ſelf with the thoughts of a child, but brings forth nothing but wind, water, or ſome dead maſs. Brentius exemplifieth this by the Papiſts deviſing tot modos & formas confitendi & Miſſandi, ſo many wayes and formes of Confeſſing and Maſſing. Poor ſouls when ſtung by the Fryers Sermons, or otherwayes troubled in mind, run to thoſe practices for help, but all in vain: for though ſtilled for a while, yet conſcience recoileth upon them, and making them miſerable, leaveh them deſperate, as Popery is a Doctrine of deſperation Mean while, till they are conſuted by the event, wicked men pleaſe themſelves not a little in their ſinful conceptions; they have a kind of a ſenſ[illegible: 2 letters] veneris (which Scaliger will have to be the ſixth ſenſe,In male agendo voluptatem quaeſierunt. Merlin. Spec. Europ. beſides thoſe five commonly counted of) a ſenſual delight in the[illegible: 1 letter] ſinful projects. As one ſpeaking of the Councel of Trent, ſaith, That it was carried on by the Pope with ſuch infinite guile and craft, as that themſelves will even ſmile in the tryumphs of their own wits, (when they hear it but mentioned) as at a maſter ſtratagem. theſe heathens (ſo they are called, Re[illegible: 2 letters] 11.2.) conſider not, that whites they thus [illegible: 1 letter]umultuate, they do but imagine a vain thing Pſal. 2.1. and that the childs name is Vanity, as here.

And their belly prepareth deceit] Not their head, but their belly prepareth (accurately and ſtrongly prepareth, ſo the word ſignifieth) deceit, ſelf-deceit (ſo ſome ſenſe it) or rather to deceive and undo others whom they cannot over-come by might to overcome by [illegible: 1 letter]eight And in theſe guileful projects they delight and take a contemplative kind of pleaſure, as the voluptuous perſon doth in his luſt, Pſal. 52.1, 2.