The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
Ver. 20. The womb shall forget him] Some read it, The merciful man forgetteth him; sc. because he himself was merciless. Or because he was a trouble to the world, and a common pest, therefore good men are glad to be so rid of him; and instead of sighing over him, say, Let the worm feed sweetly on him, it is well he is gone; as he lived wickedly so he died wickedly; let him be no more remembered or honourably mentioned, but moulder away, and fall as a rotten tree. Others interpret the words of the sudden and easy death of the wicked, thus, The womb shall forget him; that is, saith Beza, being once dead, neither his mother nor his wife do bewail and lament his death, because without that pain and torment that many suffer when they depart the world.
The worm shall feed sweetly on him] Morifur impunitus, be maketh the worms a feast with his fat corpse (as Dr Taylor, martyr, made account to have done, if buried in Hadleigh churchyard), and feels no pain.
He shall be no more remembered] And this is reckoned up as a piece of his happiness. See Ecclesiastes 8:10. See Trapp on " Ecc 8:10 "
And wickedness] That is, the wicked person, that crooked piece, that can hardly ever be set straight again.
Shall be broken as a tree] As a rotten tree blown down by the wind.