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For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.
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Grief's Physical Toll
Commentators explain that the imagery of 'days consumed like smoke' and 'bones burned' is not merely poetic. It vividly describes the physical wasting that can accompany deep emotional and spiritual anguish. Scholars like Spurgeon and Gill note how profound sorrow can feel like a fever, consuming one's strength from the inside out, affecting even the 'most solid and substantial part' of the body.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For my days are consumed like smoke - Margin, “into smoke.” Literally, “in smoke.” That is, they vanish as smoke; they pass away an…
19th Century
Anglican
Like smoke. —Or, in smoke. (See margin. Compare to Psalms 37:20.)
Hearth. —Better, a brand
Baptist
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to ea…
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16th Century
Protestant
For my days are consumed like smoke. These expressions are hyperbolic, but they still show how deeply the desolation of the Church ought t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For my days are consumed like smoke Which suddenly rises up, is easily dissipated, and quickly disappears; so sudden…
The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, as often elsewhere, the Holy Spirit has put words into our mouths. Here is a pray…
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