12. age —rather, as the parallel "shepherd's tent" requires habitation, so the Arabic [GESENIUS]. departed —is broken up, or shifted, as a tent to a different locality. The same image occurs ( 2 Corinthians 5:1 ; 2 Peter 1:12 ; 2 Peter 1:13 ). He plainly expects to exist, and not cease to be in another state; as the shepherd still lives, after he has struck his tent and removed elsewhere. I have cut off —He attributes to himself that which is God's will with respect to him; because he declares that will. So Jeremiah is said to "root out" kingdoms, because he declares God's purpose of doing so ( 2 Peter 1:13- : ). The weaver cuts off his web from the loom when completed. Job 7:6 has a like image. The Greeks represented the Fates as spinning and cutting off the threads of each man's life. he —God. with pining sickness —rather, "from the thrum," or thread, which tied the loom to the weaver's beam. from day . . . to night —that is, in the space of a single day between morning and night ( Job 7:6- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-13" class="com-number"
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