He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.
Ver. 6. He hath set me in dark places.] Dungeons haply, which are a kind of graves, and where poor prisoners lie as forgotten. The Persians called their prisons ληθας, oblivions. And Ezekiel saith that Babylon was to the Jews as a grave, where they lay for dead till those dead bones lived again. Eze 37:1-14
As they that be dead of old.] Free among the dead and forgotten. It may be said of a saint, in some cases, that
“ Vivit, et est vitae nescius ipse sum. ”