| Geneva Study Bible {k} His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. (k) When God recompenses his wickedness, he will know that his prosperity was vanity. Wesley's Notes 21:20 See - He shall be destroyed; as to see death, is to die. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 20. Another questionable assertion of the friends, that the sinner sees his own and his children's destruction in his lifetime. drink-(Ps 11:6; Isa 51:17; La 4:21). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 21:17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness and justice of God. Even while they prosper thus, they are light and worthless, of no account with God, or with wise men. In the height of their pomp and power, there is but a step between them and ruin. Job refers the difference Providence makes between one wicked man and another, into the wisdom of God. He is Judge of all the earth, and he will do right. So vast is the disproportion between time and eternity, that if hell be the lot of every sinner at last, it makes little difference if one goes singing thither, and another sighing. If one wicked man die in a palace, and another in a dungeon, the worm that dies not, and the fire that is not quenched, will be the same to them. Thus differences in this world are not worth perplexing ourselves about. | 
