Commentators unanimously agree that the dramatic imagery of digging to Sheol (the underworld) and climbing to heaven is hyperbolic. It powerfully illustrates a core truth: there is no place in all of creation where one can hide from God's sovereign reach. As John Calvin notes, this severe language was meant to shock the Israelites out of their false security, reminding them that their status as God's people did not grant them a license to sin without consequence.