For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
We ... are as water spilt on the ground ... Metaphors are suggested by natural feelings, or originate from local peculiarities. In Oriental countries nothing is so valuable as water; and hence, the expressiveness of the phrase in the mouth or in the ear of a Hebrew or native of the East.