They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
Ver. 16. They shall go down to the bars of the pit] That is, I and my things, or I and my hopes of prosperity, Job 17:15, and they that will see the good I hope for must pass through the gates of death to behold it, and lie down in the grave with me, and then it shall appear. Cajetan thinks that this is spoken ironically to his friends, and by way of derrision, Per irrisionem haec dicta sunt; q.d. It seems like you think I shall be rich in the grave (who promise so much to me, and make me such overtures of a happiness here), for I have no hope to be rich in this world. And the Septuagint seem to favour this sense, rendering it, Shall my goods go into the grave with me? See 1 Timothy 6:7. See Trapp on " 1Ti 6:7 "
When our rest together is in the dust] Or, When I shall rest alone in the dust, as Job 34:29; and then (De Annibal. Sil. Ital.),
- Modo quem fortuna fovendo,
Congestis opibus donisque refersit opimis,
Nudum tartarea portabit navita cymba