An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Yet thou dost destroy me.

The word signifies to swallow up; ¹and to swallow up with greediness, Psal. 52.4. Thou lovest all devouring (or swallowing) words; words which swallow down thy neighbours credit, and devour his good name, as one morsel. The holy Ghost expresseth our final victory over death, by a word which reacheth this sense (1 Cor. 15.54.) Death is swallowed up (or drunk down) in victory; death is drunk up at a draught. Christ called his sufferings (by which he got this victory) a cup. The Apostle uses the same word again (2 Cor. 5.4.) That mortality might be swallowed up of life. When this mortal shall have put on immortality, death shall be swallowed up in victory, that is, there shall be a complete victory over death, and not only so, but mortality shall be swallowed up of life. In heaven there shall be no death, nor any thing like death, nothing bearing any the least resemblance of it's image, or letter of it's superscription, nothing of mortality shall be found or felt there: There mortality shall be swallowed up of life; here Job complains that his life was almost swallowed up of mortality. Yet thou dost destroy, or swallow me up: As thou hast already swallowed ⟨p. 498⟩up my estate, so thou seemest resolved to swallow up my very breath. When Joab besieged Abel, a wise woman out of the City cried unto him, Thou seekest to destroy a City in Israel; why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord? 2 Sam. 20.19. Job saw a great Army of afflictions encamping about him: and he seems to cry out to the Lord of those hosts, why seekest thou to destroy thy servant, why wilt thou swallow me, who am the work of thy hands?