Job 8:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

So are the paths of all that forget God Of wicked men, who are often described by this character; see Psalms 9:17; Psalms 50:22; or, of hypocrites, as the next words explain it, whose first and fundamental error is, that they forget, that is, neglect, forsake, and despise God, his presence, commands, worship, and providence; and, therefore, break out into manifold sins. But, by their paths, he does not intend their manner of living, but the events which befall them, God's manner of dealing with them. Now this may be accommodated to the foregoing similitude in this manner, namely, Such is the prosperity of wicked men; because it wants the solid foundation of piety, and of God's promise and blessing consequent thereupon, it quickly vanishes into nothing. The hypocrite's hope shall perish That is, the object of his hope, his riches, his friends, his honours, and other such like things, on which he founded his expectations; for, when these are lost, hope may be said to perish, because that from which it arose is no more.