Isaiah 38:12
My longevity has been taken away; it has been folded up and taken from me, like the tent of a shepherd. My life has been cut off, as if by a weaver. While I was still beginning, he cut me off. From morning until evening, you have marked out my limits.
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Job 4:20From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing.
Job 7:3so also have I had empty months and have counted my burdensome nights.
Job 9:25My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.
Job 17:1My spirit will be wasted, my days will be shortened, and only the grave will be left for me.
Psalms 73:14You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.
Psalms 90:5His truth will surround you with a shield. You will not be afraid: before the terror of the night,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22
Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord , in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will… Read the whole commentary →