Verse 7:[1] The LORD (Job 1:21) maketh poor, and maketh rich: (Ps. 75:7) he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
[He makes poor (thus nearly all), מוֹרִישׁ] Causing to need (Jonathan). But Rabbi Isaiah translates it, He drives away from inheritance, as if from יָרַשׁ, to possess or disposses. For מֵרִישׁ would be from רָשׁ/poor (Drusius). He is the Author of riches and of poverty. The Chaldean Paraphrast understand this song as prophetic; therefore, he renders all by the future tense (Vatablus).
[And He lifts up[2]] He even raises. For more strength is required to lift up, than to humble or press down. Therefore, she makes use of the particle, even. Thus Æsop, when asked what Jupiter does, responded, He humbles the exalted, and exalts the humble[3] (Drusius).
Ῥέα μὲν γὰρ δ᾽ βριάει, ῥέα δ᾽ βριάοντα χαλέπτει, etc.
For He easily makes strong, and, making strong, easily crushes, etc.
Thus Hesiod[4] (Grotius).
Archibald Hall's Gospel Worship: 'I shall begin with some account of the nature of that liberality to poor saints, which is the subject of the present chapter.
If we believe a providence, we must own that God interests himself in the affairs of this life, to the enlarging of some, and lessening of others, as his infinite wisdom sees best. Even an Heathen prince was brought, by God's awful dealings with him, to such a conviction, that "the Most High ruleth in the kingdoms of men, and giveth them to whomsoever he will," as to be constrained to acknowledge, that "he doth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none…
Thomas Boston's The Crook in the Lot: 'There are pure and sinless crooks: the which are mere afflictions, cleanly crosses; grievous indeed, but not defiling. Such were Lazarus's poverty, Rachel's barrenness, Leah's tender eyes, the blindness of the man who had been so from his birth, John 9:1. Now the crooks of this kind, are of God's making by the efficacy of his power directly bringing them to pass, and causing them to be. He is the maker of the poor, Proverbs 17:5, "Whoso mocketh the poor, reproacheth his Maker;" that is, reproacheth God who made him poor, according to that, 1 Samuel 2:7, "The Lord maketh poor." It is he that hath the key of the womb, and, a…
Matthew Henry: 'Advancement and abasement are both from him. He brings some low and lifts up others (1 Samuel 2:7), humbles the proud and gives grace and honour to the lowly, lays those in the dust that would vie with the God above them and trample upon all about them (Job 40:12-13), but lifts up those with his salvation that humble themselves before him, James 4:10. Or it may be understood of the same persons: those whom he had brought low, when they are sufficiently humbled, he lifteth up.'