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Job_7:8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not.
Ver. 8. The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more] In death we shall neither see nor be seen, but be soon both out of sight and out of mind too. It is told of Richard III, that he caused the dead corpse of his two smothered nephews to be closed in lead, and so put in a coffin full of holes, and hooked at the ends with two hooks of iron, and so to be cast into a place called the black deeps, at the Thames’ mouth, whereby they should never rise up, nor be any more seen (Speed. 935). Such a place is the grave till the last day: for then the sea shall give up the dead which are in it, and death and the grave shall render up the dead which are in them, Rev_20:13, then shall Adam see all his nephews at once, &c.
Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not] Thou even lookest me to death; like as elsewhere God is said to frown men to destruction, Psa_80:16 Psa_104:29; they are not able to endure his flaming eyes, sparkling out wrath against them. What mad men therefore are they that speak and act against him who can so easily do them to death! If God but set his eyes upon them for evil (as he oft threateneth to do, Amo_9:4 Job_16:9), they are undone.