Job 5:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. I have seen the foolish taking root - I have seen wicked men for a time in prosperity, and becoming established in the earth; but I well knew, from God's manner of dealing with men, that they must soon be blasted. I even ventured to pronounce their doom; for I knew that, in the order of God's providence, that was inevitable. I cursed his habitation.