Free among the dead—Luther renders this, “I lie forgotten among the dead.” DeWette renders it, “Pertaining to the dead—(den Todten …

Free among the dead ... —So the old versions, without exception, take chaphshî as an adjective, as in Job 3:19 (where it …

Free among the dead.

A freeman of the sepulcher, at home at death's dark door: Free among the dead.

Like the sla…

Free among the dead, lie the slain who lie in the grave. The prophet intended to express something more distressing and grievous than comm…

Free among the dead
If he was a freeman, it was only among the dead, not among the living; if he was free of any cit…

The first words of the psalmist are the only words of comfort and support in this psalm. Good people can be so greatly afflicted, and may have such…