John Trapp on Job 17:15

Verſe 15. And where is now my hope, &c?] Heb. And where is my hope? ſcil. of reſtauration to my priſtine proſperity, which you have ſo often promiſed me, who am now ready ſet upon the confines of death? Job was paſt the Cape of good hope, in his own apprehenſion; but God turned again his captivity, chap. 42. Qui nil ſperare poteſt deſperet nihil. Job did well to propound death to himſelf, and prepare for it by ſuch aforementioned familiarity: but yet he ſhould have better bethought him of the infinite power and goodneſſe of God, who raiſeth the dead, and delighteth to help ſuch as are forſaken of their hopes. Who delivered us from ſo great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we truſt, that he will yet deliver, 2 Cor 1.10. The Hebrew word that ſignifieth hope, ſignifieth alſo a line, becauſe by hope the heart ſhould be ſtretcht out as a line to the thing it hopeth for; And becauſe it ſignifieth alſo a Congregation, Jerem. 3.17 Gen. 1.19. therefore ſome render this verſe thus, And where now is my congregation? And as for my congregation, who ſhall ſee it? q.d. I have no other family or familiars, but what are to be found in the grave.