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John Trapp on Job 20:22

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Job20:22

Verſe 22. In the fulneſſe of his ſufficiency be ſhal be in ſtraits] The covetous man never hath a ſufficiency (but is as greedily gaſping ſtill after more, as if he were not worth an half-peny) much leſſe a fulneſſe of ſufficiency, a ſuperfluity, a ſuperabundance. What ſoever Eſan pretended in his, I have enough my brother, Gen. 33.9. Jacob could indeed ſay truly, I have enough. ver. 11. for godlineſſe only hath an autarkie, 1 Tim. 6.6. True piety hath true plenty, and is never with out a well-contenting ſufficiency, wherein the good man is, when is the fulneſſe of ſtraits. See it in David, 1 Sam. 30.6. in Habakkuk. chap. 3.16, 17. in Paul, 2 Cor. 6.10. Phil. 4-11. he had nothing, and yet poſſeſſed all things. But that which Zophar here drives at, is to ſhew that the Oppreſſour ſhall be ruinated when at higheſt, and when he leaſt looketh for it; as was Nebuchadnezzar, Haman, Belſhazzar, Babylon the great, Rev. 18.7, 8. How was Alexander the Great ſurprized at a Feaſt? Caeſar in the Senate houſe? many of the Emperors in their own Palaces, &c?

Every hand of the wicked ſhall come upon him] Or, Of the Labourer, whoſe wages he hath detained. Or, of the poor oppreſſed, whom he hath forced to labour hard for a poor living. Broughton rendreth it, Each hand of the injured and grieved ſhall come upon him; and ſo he ſhall have many fiſts about his ears, many ready to rifle him and to pull a fleece from him.

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