John Trapp on Job 27:17

Verſe 17. He may prepare it, but the juſt ſhall put it on] Well may he prepare it, ſo Broughton. Let the wicked men toyle and take pains for it; God hath prepared for him an executour never mentioned in his Will. God gave the Egyptians and Canaanites Goods to Iſrael; Nabals to David; Human[illegible: 1 letter] to Mordecai, See Prop. 28.8. Eccleſ, 2.26. This plague among the reſt God threatneth the diſobedient with; Deut. 28.30 Sed haec non ſemper, ſaith Mercer, although we ſee not this alwayes ſo to fall out, but the contrary; yet it is eaſie to obſerve that many ſpend their ſtrength, and waſte their wits in congerendo & conver[illegible: 1 letter]end[illegible: 1 letter], in getting and gathering theſe outward things: and then, when to poſſeſs them might leem a happineſs, thev die and leave them to uncertain heirs, as did Abſolom and Alexander the Great, who left his Ring to Perdicc[illegible: 1 letter], Plut. but his Dominions [non-Latin text not transcribed] to him that ſhould beſt deſerve them.

And the innocent ſhall divide the ſilver] Shall ſhare it among them as their Childs-Portions. Solet enim Deus dividere aliis dona, aliis [illegible: 1 span] & lucium, ſaith Brentius here. God gives gifts unto men, even to the reb[illegible: 1 letter]ll[illegible: 3 letters], but the uſe and enjoyment of thoſe gifts he beſtoweth upon the righteous. The former have [illegible: 1 span] ſure and trouble therewith, Juvenal. Prov. [illegible: 2 letters].16 Miſer[illegible: 1 letter]eſt [illegible: 1 span] The later have, howſoever, contented godlineſs: and though they gather leſs of this Manna here below, yet they have no wa[illegible: 2 letters].