Even as I have seen
Here he goes about to prove, by his own experience, the
destruction of wicked men; and would intimate, that Job was such
an one, because of the ruin he was fallen into:
they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the
same;
figurative expressions, denoting that such who devise iniquity in
their hearts, form and plan schemes of it in their minds,
signified by "plowing iniquity", and who were studious and
diligent to put into practice what they devised; who took a great
deal of pains to commit sin, and were constant at it, expressed
by "sowing wickedness": these sooner or later eat the fruit of
their doings, are punished in proportion to their crimes, even in
this life, as well as hereafter, see ( Hosea 8:7 ) ( 10:13 ) ( Galatians
6:7 Galatians
6:8 ) ; though a Jewish commentator F2
observes, that the thought of sin is designed by the first
phrase; the endeavour to bring it into action by the second; and
the finishing of the work, or the actual commission of the evil,
by the third; the punishment thereof being what is expressed in (
Job 4:9 ) ; the
Targum applies this to the generation of the flood.