John Trapp on Job 20:15

Verſe 15. [illegible: 1 span] down riches.] As wild beaſts do their prey, as the greater fiſhes do the leſſer, greedily, eaſily, ſuddenly, recoverably as the fire ſwalloweth up the fuel, as the lean Kine devoured the far and as the Pamphagus glutton doth his tid bits, his ſweet morſels. This word, Hath ſwollowed. ſheweth his infinite and unſatiate deſire of getting and gathering riches; and that by continual gaping after more, he loſeth the pleaſure of what he hath already. Like as a dog at his Maſters table ſwalloweth the whole meat he caſteth him without any pleaſure, gaping ſtill for the next morſel. He knoweth no other language but that of the Horte Leethes daughter, Give, give; or that of greedy Eſe[illegible: 1 letter], returning from the field, as hungry as an Hunter, Gen. 25.30. Feed me I pray thee, or, [illegible: 1 word] me ſwallow at [illegible: 2 letters]er (like as Camels are fed by caſting gobbets into cheir mouth) [illegible: 1 word] red, red, &c. Gold is no better then red earth, and cannot terminate mans Eccleſ 5.10.

And he ſhall vomit them up again] Either by remorſe and reſtitution in the mean time, or by deſpair and impenitent horror hereafter; He ſhall vomit them up, and together with them his vital blood and ſpirits: he ſhall bring up his very heart withall, as Judas did, together with thoſe thirty pieces of ſilver, Mat. 27.4. all his bowels guſhing out, Act. 1.18. He thought to have digeſted his ill g[illegible: 2 letters] ten goods, as the Eſtrich doth iron: but Pelican-like, he is forced to caſt them up again. The Whale that ſwallowed Jonah found him hard meat, [non-Latin text not transcribed] Pelicanus à vomitu. Vide Plin. l. 10. c. 30. Graci eleganter tropo explicato. and for his own eaſe was forced to regurgitate. Think the ſame of this wretched Mammoniſt. The Septuagint interpret the Text, when they thus render it, Wealth unjuſtly gathered ſoal be vomited up again, and an Angel ſhall bale it out of his mouth. An evil Angel, ſay their Interpreters: But the Hebrew verity referreth it to God, as an act of his divine juſtice.

God ſhall caſt them out of his belly] As by a Writ of Ejectment, or rather, as by a violent purgation that ſhall work both wayes, Jer. [illegible: 1 letter]1.44. I will puniſh Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he hath ſwallowed up; viz. the wealth of the Nations round about him. This God will take out of his belly, ſo that a piece of his heart ſhall go with it. In the laſt deſtruction of Jeruſalem, ſome of the Jewes had ſwallowed their gold, that the roman ſouldiers might not have it; this was found out, and thereupon thouſands of them were killed and ript up, for the gold that might be found in their ſtomacks and bowels. In like ſort ſhal God deal with thoſe covetous Gaitives, that have devoured the riches of iniquity; that have ſuck'd in peſtilential Air, as hoſ. 8.7. See the Note there.