Job 8:13

“So [are] the paths of all that forget God, etc.] Who forget that there is a God; he is not in all, and scarce in any of their thoughts, and they live without him in the world; who forget the works of God, of creation and providence, in which there is a glorious display of his being and perfections; who forget the benefits and blessings of his goodness they are every day partakers of, and are not thankful for them; and who forget the word, worship, and ordinances of God, and follow after and observe lying vanities, idols, and the works of men’s hands, and worship them, being unmindful of the rock of their salvation: now such men, as well as the hypocrites in the next clause, are like…”

“paths--so "ways" (Pro 1:19). all that forget God--the distinguishing trait of the godless (Psa 9:17; Psa 50:22).”

“So are the paths of all that forget God - This is clearly a part of the quotation from the sayings of the ancients. The word “paths” here means ways, acts, doings. They who forget God are like the paper-reed. They seem to flourish, but they have nothing that is firm and substantial. As the paper-reed soon dies, as the flag withers away before any other herb, so it will be with the wicked, though apparently prosperous. And the hypocrite’s hope shall perish - This important sentiment, it seems, was known in the earliest periods of the world; and if the supposition above be correct, that this is a fragment of a poem which had come down from far distant times, it was probably known before the…”

“Paths - Of wicked men. By their paths he doth not understand their manner of living, but the events which befall them, God's manner of dealing with them. Job 8:14”

“that forget God: Deu 6:12, Deu 8:11, Deu 8:14, Deu 8:19; Psa 9:17, Psa 10:4, Psa 50:22; Isa 51:13 the hypocrite's: Job 11:20, Job 13:16, Job 15:34, Job 18:14, Job 20:5, Job 27:8-10, Job 36:13; Pro 10:28, Pro 12:7; Isa 33:14; Lam 3:18; Mat 24:51; Luk 12:1, Luk 12:2 Job 8:14”