For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four [which] it cannot bear:
Ver. 21. For three things the earth is disquieted.] Such trouble towns are odious creatures; the places where they live, long for a vomit to spew them out. As they live wickedly, so they die wishedly; there is a good world's riddance of them, as there was of Nabal, and of those in Job 27:23; Job 27:15, who were buried before half dead, being hissed and kicked off the stage of the world, as Phocas was by Heraclius.
And for four which it cannot bear.] The very axle of the world is even ready to crack under them, the earth to open and swallow them up.