For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Ver. 21. For what pleasure hath he in his house after him?] Hoc est, Omnia impiorum, etiam post mortem eorum, maledicta erunt, saith Brentius; All that belongs to the wicked shall be accursed, even after death, though some are so desperately set upon wickedness that they will have their swing, whatsoever come of it, either to themselves or their children after them. Sic fere αστοργοι sunt improbi, so unnatural they are, many of them, that, so they may satisfy their own sinful and sensual desires, let their posterity sink or swim, let them shift as they can, they care not, εμου θανοντος γαια μιχθητω πυρι (Sueton. de Tiberio). Dives in hell seemed somewhat careful for his brethren; but self'love moved him to it; for he knew well that if they were damned he should be double damned, because they had sinned by his example and encouragement.
When the number of his months shall be cut off in the midst] Mortis periphrasis; that is, when he shall die, saith one. But that is not all. Impius moritur importune, the wicked dieth in an ill time for himself; then when it were better for him to do anything than to die. Many of them live not out half their days, Psa 55:23 Ecclesiastes 7:17. God cut off Eli's two sons in one day; and further threatened their father that there should not be an old man left in his house for ever, 1 Samuel 2:32. Hezekiah, when he thought he should die, complained that he had cut off his life like a weaver, Isaiah 38:12, who cuts off the web from the thrum. But the saints (such as he was) die not till the best time, not till that time when, if they were rightly informed, they would even desire to die.