11 "I've given you a clear account of God in action, suppressed nothing regarding God Almighty. 12 The evidence is right before you. You can all see it for yourselves, so why do you keep talking nonsense? 13 "I'll quote your own words back to you: "'This is how God treats the wicked, this is what evil people can expect from God Almighty: 14 Their children - all of them - will die violent deaths; they'll never have enough bread to put on the table. 15 They'll be wiped out by the plague, and none of the widows will shed a tear when they're gone. 16 Even if they make a lot of money and are resplendent in the latest fashions, 17 It's the good who will end up wearing the clothes and the decent who will divide up the money. 18 They build elaborate houses that won't survive a single winter. 19 They go to bed wealthy and wake up poor. 20 Terrors pour in on them like flash floods - a tornado snatches them away in the middle of the night, 21 A cyclone sweeps them up - gone! Not a trace of them left, not even a footprint. 22 Catastrophes relentlessly pursue them; they run this way and that, but there's no place to hide - 23 Pummeled by the weather, blown to kingdom come by the storm.'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 27:11-23
Commentary on Job 27:11-23
(Read Job 27:11-23)
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived, he had the benefit of sparing mercy; but now the day of God's patience is over, and he will pour out upon him his wrath. When God casts down a man, there is no flying from, nor bearing up under his anger. Those who will not now flee to the arms of Divine grace, which are stretched out to receive them, will not be able to flee from the arms of Divine wrath, which will shortly be stretched out to destroy them. And what is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and thus lose his own soul?