John Trapp on Job 18:10

Verſe 10 The ſnare is laid for him in the way, &c.] This heap of words, net, ſnare, grin, trap, cords, ſheweth that God hath many wayes to catch the wicked with; and that nuſquam & nunquam non eis impendeat exitium, deſtruction is ready to meet them at every turning. God cannot want a weapon to beat a Rebel.

And a trap for him in the way] He walks as it were upon a Mine of Gun-powder. The Hebrew hath it, His trap; ſuch as moſt of the Ceſars. till Conſtantine the great met with; and among the reſt Maximinus (that Maſtive Tyrant eight foot high) who daily devoured forty pounds of fleſh, and drank thereto ſix gallons of Wine. This ſoul beaſt after he had raiſed the ſixth Perſecution againſt the Chriſtians, eſpecially againſt the Paſtors of the Church, and exerciſed many other great cruelties, was told to his teeth,Mi[illegible: 2 letters]m in theatro. Elephas grandis eſt, & occiditur; Leo fortis eſt, & occiditur: Cave multos, ſi ſingulos non times. And it befel him accordingly; for at the ſiege of Aquileia in Italy, Euſeb. he was ſlaine as he ſlept at noon in his Tent by his own ſouldiers. Ezekiel foretelleth the degenerate ſons of Joſiah. that they ſhall be taken by the King of Babylon as beaſts in a toil. So Pharaoh, that natural brute beaſt, was made to be taken and deſtroyed. 2 Pet. 2.12. with Exod. 9.16. So Saul complaineth that God had forſaken him, and the Philiſtines thoſe ſavage creatures, were upon him, 2 Sam. 28. Behold I will ſend for many hunters, and they ſhal hunt them, &c. Jer. 16.16.