Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is broken down, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off, like a weaver, my life; with pining sickness will he snatch me away: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me.
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Job 4:20From morning to evening are they broken to pieces: without laying it [to heart] they perish for ever.
Job 7:3So was I compelled to possess months of vanity, and nights of trouble were counted out unto me.
Job 9:25And my days pass swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no happiness,
Job 17:1My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave is ready for me.
Psalms 73:14While I was afflicted all the day, and my chastisement [came] every morning.
Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning [they grow] like the grass which changeth.
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 →