Isaiah 38:12
My life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread.
Brenton Septuagint
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Job 4:20And from morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves.
Job 7:3So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.
Job 9:25But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not.
Job 17:1I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not.
Psalms 73:14Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations.
Psalms 90:5Thou shalt not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day;
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 →