But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
KJV
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
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But those that seek my soul to destroy it,.... Meaning his life; for as for his soul, that was immaterial and immortal, and could never be destroyed by man: but as for his natural life, his enemies laid snares for that, and sought to take it away, and nothing less would satisfy them;
shall go into the lower parts of the earth; not the grave, whither the righteous go as well as the wicked; besides, by their being the portion of foxes, as follows, it seems that they should have no burial; but hell is meant, the bottomless pit. Some take it to be a prayer, as Kimchi and Ben Melech; "may they go", or "let them go", &c. see
Psa 55:15
. The allusion may be thought to be to the death of Korah and his company.
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