come because of the wickedness of the people, and that it is all right:
"10. If he cut off and shut up and gather together, who can hinder him?
"11. For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
"If he cut off," the commentators say, means literally, "If he pass by as a storm."
That is to say, if he cuts off the people, (kills them by the million,) and shuts up a few in caves, as Job was shut up in prison, gathered together from the storm, how are you going to help it? Hath he not seen the vanity and wickedness of man?
And Zophar tells Job to hope, to pray to God, and that he will yet escape:
"16. Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away.
"17. And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning."
"Thou shalt shine forth" Gesenius renders, "though now thou art in darkness thou shalt presently be as the morning"; that is, the storm will pass and the light return. Umbreit gives it, "Thy darkness shall be as the morning; only the darkness of morning twilight, not nocturnal darkness." That is, Job will return to that dim light which followed the Drift Age.
"18. And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety."