thing that it had been doing to human beings until that point: Yahweh swallows it up. However, one must also remember that Hebrew מות (mot) and English “death” do not have the same range of meaning. A person is in the realm of mot or in שׁאול (Sheol) already when being afflicted by a terrible illness. Mot is anything that causes trouble during one’s life, is that which limits the way in which one lives life, is that which takes something away from one’s prosperity and gets in the way of fellowship