What advantage would it be to Thee to slay me? Nay, Thou wouldest lose Thy servant's praises. For the form of the question cp. Job 22:3. The same motive is appealed to in Hezekiah's prayer, Isaiah 38:18-19. Cp. Psalms 6:5; Psalms 88:10 ff; Psalms 115:17. On this gloomy view of death as the interruption of communion with God, see Introd. p. xciii ff.

the dust Not the dust into which the body is dissolved, but the grave, as in Psalms 22:15; Psalms 22:29.

thy truth God's faithfulness (Psalms 25:5), which is the object of the praises of the faithful.

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