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 cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Ver. 12. Mine age is departed.] Or, My generation, or my habitation: here I have no settled abode, no continuing city, but am flitting, as a shepherd's shed.
I have cut off like a weaver my life.] By my sins I have shortened my days. as Genesis 38:7 ; Gen 38:10 Or rather, God as a weaver that hath finished his web, cutteth me out of the loom of life. We know what the poets fain of the fates,
“ Clotho colum baiulat, Lachesis trahit, Atropos occat. ”
He will cut me off with pining sickness.] Or, From the thrum, for the same Hebrew word signifieth both, because of the thinness and weakness of it.
From day even to night.] So that by night I shall be dead, as they story of the Ephemerobii and as Aristotle writes that the river Hypanis in Thracia every day bringeth forth little bladders out of which come certain flies, which are thus bred in the morning, fledged at noon, and dead at night.