For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
For my days are consumed like smoke - or, as Hebrew-literally, 'in (into) smoke.' The very same expression which David in Psalms 37:20 had used of "the enemies of the Lord:" "they shall consume into smoke" (cf. Psalms 68:2). Hereby the ideal sufferer virtually complains that the lot of the wicked befalls him, though being righteous, (Psalms 101:1-8.) The low state of depression of the throne and the people is herein shadowed forth. And my bone are burned as an hearth - rather, 'as a firebrand;' 'as a thing burning.' So the Hebrew, Leviticus 6:9, margin; Isaiah 33:14. Pain rages like a burning in the innermost parts of my frame (Jeremiah 20:9).