John Trapp on Job 18:19

Verſe 19. he ſhall neither have ſon nor Nephew, &c.] A ſore affliction to be written childleſſe, which yet is the portion of ſome good people, as Abel; many Prophets and Apoſtles, for whoſe comfort that is written, Iſai. 56.4.5. God, as he will be to his childleſſe children better then ten ſons; ſo he will give them in his houſe,1 Sam. 1.8 Iſal. 96.5. and within his wals, a place and a name, better then of ſons and of daughters the wil give them an everlaſting name that ſhal never be cut off. Not ſo the ungodly, thoſe men of Gods hand; for though full of children, they leave the reſt of their ſubſtance to their babes, Pſal. 17.14. yet it will prove to be but luctnoſa foecunditas, as Hierom ſpeaketh, they ſhall weep for their loſt children, and not be comforted, becauſe they are not. Or if they ſurvive, they prove ſingular cuts and croſſes to their wretched Parents, who have cauſe enough to cry out as Moſes ſometimes did, let me dye out of hand, and not ſee my wretchedneſſe, Num. 11.15. They are filled with [illegible: 2 letters]medicinable ſorrowes, in the loſſe either of their children or of their eſtates by their waſteful children, ſo that they praiſe the dead above the living, and wiſh they had never been born, Eccleſ. 4.2, 3.

Nor any remaining in his dwellings] When the ſouldiers ſlew the Tyrant Maximinius and his ſon, at the ſiege of Aquil[illegible: 1 letter]ia, they cryed out, Ex peſſima geneve ne catulum quidem habendum, Of ſo ill a kind, let not a whelp be kept alive.