John Trapp on Job 21:13

Verſe 13 They ſpend their dayes in wealth.] Or, in mirth: Hebr. In good. They wallow in wealth, and have the world at will, even more then heart could wiſh, as David phraſeth it in Pſalm 73. which may well ſerve for a Comment upon this Text; And the rich glutton for an inſtance. He in his life-time received his good things, and in a moment went down to the grave, Luke 16.25. True it is, that this is not every wicked mans caſe: for ſome of them live wretchedly, and dye lamentably, being held long upon the rack of a torturing Diſeaſe (as Jehoram) all which is to them no other then a Type and foretaſte of hell, whither they are haſting.

And in a moment they go down to the grave] Ad inferna, to hell, ſaith the Vulgar, they ſpend their dayes in wealth, and end their dayes in woe; their merry dance determineth in a miſerable downfall. Thus that rich man dyed, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, &c, Luke 16.22, 23. But though the ſame Hebrew word ſignifieth hell and the grave (both which have their names from their unſatiableneſſe, Prov. 30.15, 16) yet here, in a ſutableneſſe to what went before, the grave is to be underſtood; and the ſenſe is, Dicto citius mori[illegible: 2 letters]tur, they dye eaſily, ſuddenly, ſweetly, without much pain of body or trouble of mind: there are no bonds in their death, ſaith David, Pſal. 73. They dye without much ado, like a lamb, or like a lamp, that goeth out of it ſelf when the oyle faileth: they go quickly and quietly to the grave: ſome wicked perſons indeed dye piece-meal by a complicate Diſeaſe, and a long lingring Death, as did Antiochus, Herod, Philip 2 of Spain, &c. Dionyſius the Tyrant is ſaid to have envyed a beaſt, whoſe throat he ſaw cut, becauſe he dyed ſo ſoon. Julius Caeſar wiſhed he might dye ſpeedily, ſaith Suetonius. Pliny commendeth ſudden death as the chief felicity of life.M[illegible: 1 letter]rs jucunda cujus nulla praceſſes expectatio aut me[illegible: 3 letters]. That's a good death to nature which is neither feared nor expected, yet that is the beſt death which hath been longeſt expected and prepared for. Happy is he that after due preparation, is paſſed through the gates of death, ere he be aware. Happy is he that by the holy uſe of long ſickneſſe, is taught to ſee the gates of death afar off, and addreſſeth for a reſolute paſſage. The one dyeth like Eliah, the other like Eliſha, both bleſſedly.