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.
Ver. 10. I said in the cutting off of my days.] When I looked upon myself as a dead man. Here he telleth us what passed between God and him while he lay desperately sick. The utmost of a danger escaped is to be recognised and recorded. This will both instruct the judgment, enlarge the heart, and open the mouth.
I shall go to the gates of the grave.] He maketh the grave to have gates, either by a poetic fiction, or else by a proverbial expression. So "the gates of death." Psalms 9:13 ; Psa 107:18 1Sa 2:6
I am deprived of the residue of my years,] sc., That I might have lived in a natural course. Vox haec queritantis quidem est: Quis enim vult mori? prorsus nemo. Nature shunneth death as its slaughter man.