His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Ver. 11. His bones are full of the sin of his youth] Foul practices have so grown up together with some sinful people, that they may say of them as the strumpet Quartilla did of her virginity, that she could not remember that ever she had been a maid, Iunonem meam iratam habeam si unquam me meminerim Virginem (Petron.). "This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice," Jeremiah 22:21. Then thou hadst no mind to it, but now thou hast less, thy heart being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, Hebrews 3:17. Now in the froth of these youthful vanities unrepented of breedeth that worm of an evil conscience that never dieth. In the best, they procure much ruth grief, though not utter ruin. The sweet ways of my youth (saith a man afterwards eminent for holiness) did breed such worms in my soul as that my heavenly Father will have me yet a little while continue my bitter wormseed, because they cannot otherwise be killed. Thus he. Holy David prayeth hard, Psalms 25:7, "Remember not against me the sins of my youth." Austin was much in the same suit. That age of man's life is very subject to, and usually very full of, sin, yea, reproachful evils, Jeremiah 31:19, fleshly lusts that war against the soul, 1 Peter 2:11, and like so many noisome diseases, soak into the bones, and suck out the marrow, to the consumption and destruction of the whole man.
Which shall lie down with him in the dust] That is, saith Vatablus, God will so forsake him, that he shall never repent, but shall die in his sins, which is worse than to die in prison or to die in a ditch; for they that die in sin shall rise in sin, and stand before Christ in sin; and how shall they be able to stand before him?