Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Ver. 5. Free among the dead] Free of that company, one of the many among the manes, or ghosts; a free denizen of that society of that moiety of mankind that are dead. Yea, I am mortuorum minimus, as R. Jonah rendereth it, according to the Arabic, A mundo manumissus.
Like the slain that lie in the grave] That are thrown on heaps into a pit, as after a field fought (R. David).
Whom thou rememberest no more] As to this present world, and as it may seem to others, with whom out of sight out of mind; dead folk are soon forgotten. Varro thinks Lethum, death, hath its name απο την ληθης, from forgetfulness; because they which have now forgotten all the world should soon be forgotten of the world.
And they are cut off from thine hand] Thy providence over them in matters belonging to life is at an end.