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John Trapp on Job 27:19

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Job27:19

Verſe 19. The rich man ſhall lye down] That is, the wicked rich man, as Jam. 5.1. Magna cognatio ut rei ſic nominis, divitiis, & vitiis. He ſhall lye down, viz. in the ſtreets, as being left houſe-leſs.

But he ſhall not be gathered] i. e. Taken into houſe or harbour by any man; but abhorred by all for his former cruelty.

He openeth his eyes, and he is not] He looketh about him on every ſide, but findeth no ſuccour. There are that underſtand it of death; The rich man ſhall lye down, Tigur. ſc in the duſt of death; but ſhall not be gathered, that is, nec honorifice funerabitur; he ſhall not have the honour of a comely burial. Beſides, he openeth his eyes, and he is not; upon his death-bed he looks about for comfort (the Mole, they ſay, never openeth her eyes till the pangs of death are upon her:) but in ſtead thereof ſhall ſee that three-fold terrible ſpectacle, Death, Judgement, Hell, and all to be paſſed through by his poor Soul: Hence (and no wonder)

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