O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. Address to God. Wind, a picture of evanescence. "He remembered that they were but flesh: a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again" (Psalms 78:39).
Shall no more see - literally, 'shall no more return to see good.' This change from the different wish in Job 3:17, etc., is most true to nature. He is now in a softer mood: and a beam from former days of prosperity falling upon memory, and the thought of the unseen world, where one is seen no more (Job 7:8), drew from him an expression of regret at leaving this world of light. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun" (Ecclesiastes 11:7). So Hezekiah - "I shall not see the Lord in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more," etc., (Isaiah 38:11). This is the voice of nature. Grace rises above nature - "We are confident, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8).