For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Ver. 11. For by me thy days.] This verse depends upon Proverbs 9:6. See Trapp on " Pro 9:7 " Those that embrace wisdom shall be paid for their pains, either in money or money's worth. Either they shall die, as Abraham did, with a good gray head; or else, with Josiah, they shall live long in a little time, and then live for ever in heaven. Enoch had the shortest life of any of the ten patriarchs; but then he was recompensed in the longest life of his son Methuselah, but especially in that "God took him" to glory. Besides, that though he departed the world soon, yet fulfilled he much time, as Mr Hooker hath it. a
And the years of thy life shall be increased.] Heb., They shall increase the years of thy life. That is, They that survive thee shall perpetuate thy memory, thy good name shall never die. Some live to be their own executors for their good name; and yet they see them, not honestly, buried before themselves die; nay, many are as those in Job 27:15; Job 27:23, hissed and kicked off this stage of the world, buried before they are half dead. There is scarce a vicious man, whose name is not rotten before his carcase. On the other side, a good man's name is ofttimes the heir to his life. Or if obscured for a time, as the martyrs were, yet as the sun breaks through the cloud that masketh it, so God shall "bring forth their righteousness as the light, and their judgment as the noonday." Psa 37:6
a Eccles polit., lib. iv. p. 168.