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Mine age is departed; the time of my life is expired.
As a shepherd’s tent, which is easily and speedily removed.
I have cut off, to wit, by my sins, provoking God to do it. Or, I do declare, and have concluded, that my life is or will be suddenly cut off; for men are oft said in Scripture to do those things which they only declare and pronounce to be done; as men are said to pollute, and to remit and retain sins, and the like, when they only declare men and things to be polluted, and sins to be remitted or retained by God.
Like a weaver, who cutteth off the web from the loom, either when it is finished, or before, according to his pleasure.
He; the Lord, who pronounced this sentence against him.
With pining sickness; with a consuming disease, wasting my spirits and life. Some render this word, from the thrum; from those threads at the end of the web, which are fastened to the beam. So the similitude of a weaver is continued.
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me: the sense is either,
1. This sickness will kill me in the space of one day. Or rather,
2. Thou dost pursue me night and day with continual pains, and wilt not desist till thou hast made a full end of me; so that I expect that every day will be my last day.