John Trapp on Job 30:24

Verſe 24 Howbeit he will out ſtretch not his hand to the grave] He will not dig up the dead (as the Papiſts dealt by Bucer and others) to afflict them any more. Quid facere poterunt? Occident? Nunquid, reſuſcitabunt ut iterum occidant! What can they do? (ſaid Luther concerning his enemies who threatned him) Will they kill me? but what then? Will they raiſe me up to life again, that they may kill me again? No: Charles the Fifth Emperour, when he might have done that, and was moved to do it, would not. Mors requies aerumnarum. Dead men are at reſt, was Chaucers Motto. There, (in the grave) the wicked ceaſe from troubling, and there the weary be at reſt, chap. 3.17. Thus Job ſpeaketh, going no further then the afflictions of the body, as being for his own part fearleſſe of eternal puniſhment. But as for the wicked, when they dye out of bodily miſery, it is but as the mans flying from a Lion, and a more ſavage Bear meeteth him: or going from it into the houſe (this houſe mentioned in verſe 23.) and that more venemous Serpent, (the Divel, who hath the power of death, Heb. 2.14.) there biteth him, Amos 5.19.

Though they cry in his deſtruction] i.e. Whiles God is cruſhing or killing of them. Or, Is there any cry in his deſtruction? It was never yet known that dead men made moane; what ever the Popiſh Legenders tell us of one that cryed out, I am dead, I am judged, I am damned; which gave occaſion to Bruno to found the Carthuſian Order.