John Trapp on Job 9:22

Verſe 22. This is one thing, therefore I ſay it] And will ſtand to it, though I ſtand alone; this being the one thing wherein I differ in opinion from you; and becauſe it is the hinge upon which the whole diſpute betwixt us is turned, therefore I will abide by it, and be Doctor reſolutus, reſolute in the maintenance of it, viz.

He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked] A harſh doctrine, yet a good one, ſaith an Interpreter: Grace is no target againſt the greateſt affliction. See Eccleſ. 9.1, 2, 3. Mal. 3.14. Ezek. 21.3. Heb. 11. ſhewes that none out of hell have ever ſuffered more then Gods deareſt children: and Heb. 12.6. He not only chaſteneth, but ſcourgeth every ſon whom he receiveth. God will not caſt away a righteous man ſaid Bildad, chap. 8.20. That is, totally deſtroy him in temporals, but reſtore him again: no ſuch matter, ſaith Job, for it may, and many times doth fall out, that a godly man may as to this life preſent, periſh, as well as a wicked man: he may be totally and finally bereft of outward comforts, The righteous periſheth, Iſa. 57.1. Only with this difference, as hath been before noted, Gods judgments on the wicked are penal and typical of eternal torment; whereas upon the godly they are no more then medicinal or probational &c.