John Trapp on Job 21:7

Verſe 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old?] Vivunt, veteraſcunt, they are lively and long lived, ſo that they out-laſt many better then themſelves; being as ſound as Roches, and as vivacious as the ſnail, the property whereof is to live a long while even after the head is off, and the heart out. Of ſome creatures we uſe to ſay, that they have nine lives: of ſome wicked men it may be thought ſo, they do evil an hundred times, and yet their dayes are prolonged, Eccleſ. 9.12. Manaſſeh raigned longeſt of any King in Judah. Pope John the 22 (that Monſter and Mortalliſt) lived longeſt of any Pope, and dyed richeſt. God gives wealth, health, and long life to many wicked, Non aliter ac ſiquis crumenam ingentem auro plenam lutrine injiciat, Gaſp. E[illegible: 2 letters]. ſaith One: No otherwiſe then as when a man caſts a great Purſe filled with Gold into a Jakes. Now if any ſhall ask, with Job, Why all this? The Apoſtle anſwereth one Queſtion by another, Rom. 922. What if God willing to ſhew his wrath, and to make his power known, endure with much long-ſuffering the veſſels of wrath fitted to deſtruction? What hath any man to ſay to that? And again, who knows not that the Lord hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteouſneſſe, even that day of the Revelation of the righteous judgement, Acts 17.31. Rom. 2.5. The Judge of the earth keepeth his petty Seſſions now, letting the Law paſſe upon ſome few, reſerving the reſt till the great Aſſizes, 1 Tim. 5.24.

Yea, are mighty in power.] Or, Prevaile in wealth, which maketh them mighty: for money is the Monarch of this preſent world, and carryeth all before it.