I am poured out like water, &c.—
As water spilt, and poured out, I seem As all my bones were out of joint. FENWICK.
By this comparison, and by that of wax, which melts before the fire, the speaker represents how much his strength was exhausted, and his spirits as it were dissolved. Nothing can be more pathetic and affecting than the description in this and the following verse; where the melancholy expression my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, was verified by our Saviour in the last agonies of his passion; when he cried out I thirst. John 19:28. The dust of death signifies the brink of the grave.