This confirms what was said (v. 3) concerning God's omnipresence, in
order to his judging of evil and good. 1. God knows all things, even
those things that are hidden from the eyes of all living: Hell and
destruction are before the Lord, not only the centre of the earth, and
its subterraneous caverns, but the grave, and all the dead bodies which
are there buried out of our sight; they are all before the Lord, all
under his eye, so that none of them can be lost or be to seek when they
are to be raised again. He knows where every man lies buried, even
Moses, even those that are buried in the greatest obscurity; nor needs
he any monument with a Hic jacet--Here he lies, to direct him. The
place of the damned in particular, and all their torments, which are
inexpressible, the state of separate souls in general, and all their
circumstances, are under God's eye. The word here used for destruction
is Abaddon, which is one of the devil's names, Rev. ix. 11. That
destroyer, though he deceives us, cannot evade or elude the divine
cognizance. God examines him whence he comes (Job i. 7), and sees
through all his disguises though he is sly, and subtle, and swift, Job
xxvi. 6. 2. He knows particularly the hearts of the children of men. If
he sees through the depths and wiles of Satan himself, much more can he
search men's hearts, though they be deceitful, since they learned all
their fraudulent arts of Satan. God is greater than our hearts, and
knows them better than we know them ourselves, and therefore is an
infallible Judge of every man's character, Heb. iv. 13.