John Trapp on Job 9:5

Verſe 5. Which removeth the mountains, and they know not] For further proof of Gods power firſt (and then afterwards of his wiſedome). Job produceth divers particular acts of his upon the creatures, both unreaſonable and reaſonable. El[illegible: 1 letter]phaz had ſaid ſomewhat to this purpoſe chap. 4. ſe hîc admirandus eſt Job, ſaith Merceri, Job doth it admirably: his tongue like a ſilver trumpet, ſets forth the high praiſes of God far more plainly, plentifully and magnificently then any of his friends, who yet have done it very well too. God to ſhew his power, removeth the mountains, ſaith Job, ſc. by ſtupendious earthquakes, and otherwiſe, at his pleaſure, Nahum 1.5. Pſalm 97.4, 5. Iſa. 40.15. he taketh up the Iſles as a very little thing; he can remove mountains with a wet finger, as we ſay, though ſo mighty in bulk, and ſtrongly founded. Dionyſius thinketh, that in thus ſpeaking, Job aimeth at that which was done in the time of Noahs flood, when the waters with their mighty force, galled and bare down many great mountains, but that's uncertaine. Great things God will do by the fire of the laſt day, when mountains ſhall melt, rocks rent, and the earth with the works therein, ſhall be all burnt up, 2 Pet. 2.10. And what deſolations he hath made in ſundry parts of the earth by terrible earth-quakes, as at Antioch often (which was there-hence called [non-Latin text not transcribed], becauſe ſo viſited by God) in divers places of Italy, Sicily, Burgundy, Helvetia, Joſeph. Cedren. Plin l. 2. cap. 83. Camb Lritan. and here in Hereford-ſhire, mention is made in Pliny, Stumpſius, Jovius, and other hiſtorians, all making good this of Job, and that of the Pſalmiſt, The mountains will skip like rammes, and the little hills like lambs, when the Lord is diſpleaſed, Pſalm 114.4.

And they know it not] Dicto citiùs, it is done with a trice, ſpeedily and ſecretly, before the mountains (if they could at all know) could know what is done to them▪ or before the mountaineers or the neighbourhood could foreſee and avoid the danger of being overwhelmed and buried alive.

Which overturneth them in his anger] Or, that he overturneth them in his anger. Men are not ſenſible of Gods anger for ſin, no not in the greateſt commotions, ſuch is their ſtupidity; but will needs ſwelter and pine away in their iniquities, as if nothing could awake them, Lev. 26 39.