If they obey and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Ver. 11. If they obey and serve him, they shall, &c.] Heb. they shall finish, they shall spend and end their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure, as Joseph, Job, and some others have done, who lived and died with glory. Howbeit this promise is to be understood with exception of the cross, which yet God both can, and to his will, make profitable and pleasant; as he did to that godly prince who, being asked, How he could so well endure so long and hard imprisonment? answered, That he had therein felt the divine consolations of the martyrs. But,
Haud facile invenies multis e millibus unum,
Virtutem pretium qui putet esse sui.