John Trapp on Job 27:8

Verſe 8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, &c.] Here Job proveth himſelf to be no hypocrite, by his and their different character and carriage, eſpecially under affliction. Though God kill Job, yet he will truſt in him; but what is the hope of the hypocrite, &c? He that maketh a bridge of his own ſhadow, muſt needs fall into the brook. The common hope thinks it takes hold of God; but it is but as a child that catcheth at the ſhadow on the wall, which he thinks he holdeth faſt in his hand; but ſoon finds it otherwiſe: ſo ſhall the hypocrite at death, his hope ſhall be then as the giving up of the Chriſt, and that is but cold comfort. Whiles he was in health, and had all well about him, he nouriſhed ſtrong hopes of Gods favour, and the rather becauſe he gained and gathered wealth apace. So bladder like is the ſoul that is filled with earthly vanities, though but wind, it growes great, and ſwells in high conceitedneſſe: but if pickt with the leaſt pin of piercing grief (how much more when ſtruck with deaths dart) it ſhriveleth to nothing, and is ready to ſay as one rich w[illegible: 2 letters]ch did on this death-bed, Spes & fortuna valeta; Life and hope adien to you both at once.

Though he hath gained] Or, When he hath been covetous; raking together [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 letter]em, qu[illegible: 1 letter]cunque modo rem; See this notably exemplified in that rich fool, Luke 12. whoſe life and hopes ended together.

When God taketh away his ſoul] Extrabet, Shall pull it out by violence, as a ſword out of its [illegible: 1 letter]eath, when God ſhall make a breach upon their Cittadel: come upon them by forcible entry, turn them out of their cottages of day by [illegible: 1 span], cut them in twain, as he did that evil ſervant, Matth 4. tear their bodies and ſouls aſunder, as a man teareth the bark from the tree, or the ſhell from the f[illegible: 1 letter]ſh, leaving it naked. Where then ſhall be the high hopes of the Hypocrite? And O what a dreadful skreek giveth his guilty ſoul then, to ſee it ſelfe lanching into an infinite Ocean of ſcalding lead, and to conſider that it muſt ſwim naked in it for ever?