Isaiah 38:12
My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he out me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Job 4:20From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.
Job 7:3So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
Job 9:25My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
Job 17:1My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.
Psalms 73:14And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
Psalms 90:5things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.
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 →