John Trapp on Psalms 118:18

Verſ. 18. The Lord hath chaſtened mee ſore] Corripuit me ſeria & ſevera caſtigatione; and yet David was his darling.

But hee hath not given mee ever to death] It might have been worſe may the afflicted Saint ſay; and it will yet bee better: It is in mercy, and in meaſure that God chaſtiſeth his Children. It is his care that the Spirit fail not before him, nor the ſoules which hee hath made, Iſa. 57.16. If his Child ſwounds in the whipping, God lets fall the rod, and falls a kiſſing it, to fetch life into it again.