[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own
dung
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 {i};
and the Arabians used, to bury in dunghills even their kings
F11; to which some F12 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 ( Job 14:10 ) .