Verse 22
Third strophe Tyrants, too, God upholds in life, delivering them from dangerous sickness; until at last, ripe in years, they sink into the grave, bearing no marks of divine displeasure, Job 24:22-25.
22. He draweth Literally, He (God) preserveth the mighty by his power. For a similar use of משׁךְ in the sense of “preserve,” “prolong,” see Psalms 36:10; Psalms 85:5; Isaiah 13:22. As frequently before, Job now shrinks from mentioning the name of Deity in such painful connexion.
No man is sure of life Hebrew, He (the wicked) riseth up and (though) he trusted not in life that is, despaired of life. Canon Cook calls attention to hhayin, life, with its plural termination in, instead of im, which has been held to denote a late age for the book, and cites the Moabitic stone to show that the termination an is very ancient.
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