THe righteous perisheth] Godly men are many of them taken away by death: a fore-running sign of some approaching judgement. See the like complaint, Psalms 12:1. Mic. 7. 2. no man layeth it to heart] Heb. setteth it upon his heart. as vers. 11. Chap. 47. 7. mercifull men are taken away] Heb. men of kindnesse; or, godlinesse, (Proverbs 11:17.) are gathered. Genesis 25:8. Psalms 27:10. the righteous is taken away from the evil to come] Or, from that which is evil (Heb. from the face of, or, from before, the evil, as Jeremiah 42:17.) is the righteous gathered. As fruit is pluckt and carried into the house, or corn cut and brought into the barn, when a storm is coming, to escape it, 1 King. 14. 12, 13. 2 Kings 22:20.