When once thou takest away this life, it is gone for ever; for he speaks not here of man's future and eternal life in another world. He passeth, i.e. he dieth, or is about to die. Man's death is oft called a passage, or a going, to intimate that it is not an annihilation, but only a translation of him into another place and state. His countenance; either,
1. His visage, which by death and its harbingers is quite transformed in colour and shape, as we see by daily experience. Or,
2. The face and state of his affairs, as to worldly riches, and pleasures, and honours, all which he leaves behind him. Sendest him away to his long home by death.