Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.
Ver. 21. Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked] As sure as death it is so; and this is oft inculcated, because hardly believed. Bildad hints at Job in all this, and therefore speaks of the wicked here in the singular number; as who should say, Thou art the man. But Job's innocence served him for a Heptaboean buckler.
And this is the place] That is, the state.
Of him that knoweth not God] Periphrasis impii, saith Drusius; this is the character of a graceless man. "Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?" Psalms 14:4. No, none that they were a button the better for.