John Gill's Exposition on Job 20:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung, etc.] Not only in this world, but in the world to come, both in his outward substance here, and in his body in the grave, and in his soul to all eternity, and that in the most shameful and disgraceful manner; he shall perish in his own corruption, and like his own dung inevitably, which is never returned to its place again: dead bodies were reckoned by the ancients as dung, and the carcasses of men are rather to be cast out than dung f774; and the Arabians used, to bury in dunghills even their kings f775; to which some f776 think the allusion is: they which have seen him shall say, where [is] he? such as formerly gazed at him, in his prosperity, with wonder and amazement at his grandeur and greatness, now being removed from his outward splendour, or from the world, by death, ask where he is, not being able to see him in his former lustre, nor in the land of the living; (see <181410>Job 14:10).

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