John Trapp on Job 20:6

Verſe 6. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens.] Though he conceit himſelf, and would have others hold him to be more then a man, and to accord him divine honour. If his pride aſcend even up to heaven, ſo the Vulgar rendreth it. If his gifts aſcend up to heaven, ſo the Septuagint, and indeed hypocrites are ever lifted up with their gifts, as ſome Corinthians were with their waxen wings, 1 Cor. 8.1. being enriched in all utterance and knowledge, and coming behind others in no gift, 1 Cor. 1.7. yet were they babes at beſt, and carnal, walking as men, chap. 3 2, 3. their Religion was more in notion then in motion: They had the ſpiritual Rickets, grew big in the head, &c. as the Moon, they encreaſed in light, but not in heat. In which reſpect alſo, and for her external priviledges, Capernaum is ſaid to be lifted up to heaven, Matth. 11.23. And the Temporary to taſte of the heavenly gift, to partake of the powers of the world to come, Hebr. 6.4, 5.

And his head reach unto the clouds] Aequalis aſtris gradior, faith He in the Poet: and Bibulus in Coele eſt, Sen. in Thieſt. Cic. ad Attic. ſaith the Oratour. The Heathen Rhetorick is but dull ſtuff to that in this Book; and indeed in this one Chapter. An hypocrites head is oft above the clouds of heaven, when his heart is beneath the clods of the earth: Like the Eagle, which when he ſoareth higheſt of all, even out of ſight almoſt. hath his eye all the while upon his prey below. Or like the Apricock tree, which ſhoots up and leanes upon the wall, but is faſt rooted in the earth. This whole Alluſion may be unto a tree, like that of Nebuchadnezzar, whoſe height was great, and reached unto heaven, Dan. 4.10, 11. with 22. Or that of the Amorite, whoſe height was like the heighth of the Cedars, and he was ſtrong as the Oaks, Amos 3.9.