John Trapp on Job 4:8

Verſe 8. Even as I have ſeene] And therefore can boldly ſay: for what ſo ſure as ſight? See Numb. 11.23. Gen. 34.1, 2. Diligent inſpection of a thing, and deepe conſideration upon it, makes confidence, which is the fruit of experience.

They that plow iniquity, and ſow wickedneſſe] Here's plowing and ſowing, a myſticall husbandry. Sinners are ſore labourers, great pains-takers; they plot and plow; they ſow and reap, they dig and delve, Prov. 16.27. they weave and ſpin, Iſa. 59.5. They buſie their heads, and beat their brains, as hard ſtudents in their black-art: they labour even unto laſſitude, Jer. 9.5. Hence they are called workers of iniquity; (the vulgar rendreth this text Qui operantur iniquitatem) and ſinne is called a work of the fleſh. How can thoſe but work hard in digging deſcents to hell, who have the divel for their task-maſter, who continually ſpurres them on to a quick diſpatch of the deeds of darkneſſe? Arant, ſerunt, occant ſcelera, as the divels hinds and horſes, they drudge night and day, turning up all the corruptions in their hearts and conveniences in the world, for the effecting of their wicked deviſes.

And ſow wickedneſſe] Nemo repente fit turpiſſimus. Sin goeth on gradually (here is firſt plowing,2 Tim. 3.13. and then ſowing) wicked men and ſeducers grow worſe and worſe, til at length they are even Satanized; being transformed into ſins image, and bereft of all paſſive power of awaking out of the ſnare of the divel, being taken alive by him at his pleaſure, 2 Tim. 2.26.

Reape the ſame] Not the ſame day it may be, but too ſoone to their ſorrow, they receive the guerdon of their ſinne. Sooner or later, it is ſure, he that ſoweth iniquity, ſhall reap vanity, Prov. 22.8. Jer. 4.18. As every body hath its ſhadow, ſo hath every ſinne its puniſhment: and many times, the one is ſo like the other, that a man may ſafely ſay, ſuch a puniſhment is the product of ſuch a ſinne, Gal. 6.7. Men ſhall reap the ſame they ſow, and good reaſon. Give them bloud to drink, for they are worthy, Rev. 16.6. God loves to make him a name amongſt men by his Art of Juſticing (as One calleth it) in that moſt exact way of counter-paſſion, or retaliation: And Adonibezek hath got him a fame of ingenuity, by acknowledging as much, Judg. 1.7.