That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.
Ver. 9. That he should still live for ever] As every wicked man would, if it might be had for money; for he knoweth no happiness but to have and to hold; on the other side of the grave he looketh for no good; whereas a godly man holdeth mortality a mercy, as Philippians 1:23, he hath Mortem in desiderio et vitam in patientia, as Fulgentius saith, he desireth to die, and yet is content to live; accepting of life rather than affecting it, enduring it rather than desiring it.
And not see corruption] Heb. the pit of corruption. The Chaldee understandeth it as hell; to the which the wicked man's death is as a trap door.