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Made old - Or, wasted: his strength slowly wasted as he pined away in sorrow.
He hath broken my bones - This…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Hath he made old. —Better, He has wasted, the verb describing the wear and tear of life rather than the effects of age. “…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he made old: he hath broken my bones.
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
These, as is evident, are metaphorical words. Illness often makes people look old, for leanness proceeds from pain; thus, the skin is contracted, a…
John Gill
JohnGill
My flesh and my skin has he made old
His flesh with blows, and his skin with smiting, as the Targum; his flesh was s…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
Here the author presents the effect of the divine scourging, just as a bruise is the effect of a rod. Concerning this, he explains three things.
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes