John Trapp on Job 3:14

Verſe 14. With Kings and Counſellors of the earth] g. d. Thoſe that here have been moſt negotious, and (as the Grandees of the earth) have had greateſt matters in hand, with thoſe ſhould I have been coupled in the grave, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. that Congregation-houſe of all living, as it is called, Job 30.23. That long, or old home. Eccleſ. 12.5. Heaven is called the Congregation-houſe of Gods first, born, Heb. 12.23. and their houſe not made with hand, 2 Cor. 5.1. But not many Kings or Nobles mee[illegible: 1 letter]e here. 1 Cor. 1.26. becauſe ſtrait is the gate, and narrow the way that leadeth to it: there muſt be ſtripping and ſtooping, which great men cannot frame to. It was a poor comfort to Hen. 8. to be told upon his death-bed, that he ſhould now go to the place of Kings: And a ſmall commendation to Hen. 2.The Spaniſh Brier was wone to ſay, there were but few Princes in hell: for why? becauſe there were but few in all. Daniels hiſt. 111. that ſome ſew hours before he died, ſeeing a liſt of their names who had conſpired againſt him, and finding therein two of his own ſons, he fell into a grievous paſſion, both curſing his ſons, and the day wherein himſelf was born; and in that diſtemperature, departed the world, which himſelf had ſo often diſtempered. He went indeed to his grave, and ſlept with his fathers; yea, he was royally interred under a ſtately Monument, meant here (haply) by building deſolate places for themſelves: Abſolom had erected a pillar for this purpoſe; and the Egyptian Kings their Pyramides, [illegible: 1 letter]o perpetuate their memories. Confer Ezek. 26.20. With theſe, Iob, had he died betime, or never ſeene the light, might have been fellowed: for death is the only King, againſt whom there is no riſing up, Prov. 30.31. and the mortall fithe is maſter of the royall Scepter, mowing down the lilies of the crown,Sceptra ligonibus aquat. as well as the graſſe of the field.