John Gill Commentary Numbers 16:29

"If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me." — Numbers 16:29 (ASV)

If these men die the common death of all men
Or "as every man dies" ^F18 , or the generality of men, who for the most part die of one disease or another, as a fever, and the like, or through old age:

or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ;
with such visitations as men in all ages for their sins are visited with, meaning public calamities, such as pestilence, famine, and sword:

[then] the Lord has not sent me ;
it may be concluded that I had no mission nor commission from the Lord to do what I have done, but may be reckoned a deceiver and an impostor; and I am content to be accounted so, should either of the above things be the case of these men.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F18: (Mdah lk twmk) "ut moriuntur omnes homines", Pagninus; "reliqui homines", Junius & Tremellius; "alii homines", Piscator.