Thou wilt bring me to death - This must be the issue of my present affliction: to God alone it is possible that I should survive it.
To the house appointed for all living - Or to the house, מועד moed, the rendezvous, the place of general assembly of human beings: the great devourer in whose jaws all that have lived, now live, and shall live, must necessarily meet.
“ - O great man-eater!
Whose every day is carnival; not sated yet!
Unheard of epicure! without a fellow!
The veriest gluttons do not always cram!
Some intervals of abstinence are sought
To edge the appetite: thou seekest none.
Methinks the countless swarms thou hast devour’d,
And thousands that each hour thou gobblest up,
This, less than this, might gorge thee to the full.