My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. My flesh and my skin hath he made old - (Job 16:8, "Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up").
Verse 5. He hath builded against me - mounds, as against a besieged city, so as to allow none to escape (so Lamentations 3:7; Lamentations 3:9). Verse 6. Set me. Henderson refers this to the custom of placing the dead in a sitting posture. In dark places - sepulchres. As those 'dead long since,' so Jeremiah and his people are consigned to oblivion (Psalms 88:5-6; Psalms 142:3; Ezekiel 37:13).
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