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Belief in the Final Destruction of the Ungodly.
v. 11. I will teach you by the hand of God, concerning the way, the manner, in which His hand works; that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal, he would declare to his friends the very counsels and thoughts of God which govern His dealings with men.
v. 12. Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it, he concedes that the final lot of the wicked is often one of extreme affliction, he agrees to accept this observation; why, then, are ye thus altogether vain, guided so completely by empty and foolish delusions?
v. 13. This is the portion of the wicked man with God, the lot which is bound to strike him, and the heritage of oppressors which they shall receive of the Almighty, the judgment of God being carried out chiefly in three forms of punishment, as Job now shows.
v. 14. If his children be multiplied, their great number being considered a proof of the divine blessing, it is for the sword, that being the first great scourge in the hand of God; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread, famine being a second scourge of nations.
v. 15. Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, those who escaped the first punishments would become victims of the pestilence; and his widows shall not weep, being hindered even from observing the usual ceremonies of mourning by the severity of the plague.
v. 16. Though he heap up silver as the dust, in immeasurable quantities, and prepare raiment, fine garments, as the clay, that they are as numerous, as common, as the mud of the streets;
v. 17. he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, for he will enter into the heritage of the godless, and the innocent shall divide the silver, Cf Psa_37:29-34; Ecc_2:16.
v. 18. He buildeth his house as a moth, a frail and temporary dwelling, and as a booth that the keeper maketh, a shed which a watchman puts up for a few days.
v. 19. The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered, he lies down once and not again, that is, he never arises; he openeth his eyes, and he is not, at the time of awakening he is gone, snatched away suddenly by the hand of death.
v. 20. Terrors take hold on him as waters, the fear of death comes upon him like the torrents of an overflowing stream; a tempest stealeth him away in the night, a sudden gust of the violent east wind carries him off.
v. 21. The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth, going off without returning; and as a storm hurleth him out of his place, he being helpless in its power.
v. 22. For God shall cast upon him and not spare, hurling the arrows of His wrath and vengeance upon him; he would fain flee out of his hand, all his attempts to escape the doom at the hand of God are futile.
v. 23. Men shall clap their hands at him, in mockery and derision, and shall hiss him out of his place, forcing him to leave his dwelling under their scornful jeering. Job thus pictured the final misfortune of the wicked in terms which even went beyond those employed by his friends.