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11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
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He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a prayer of the afflicted . It was composed by one that was himself afflicted, afflicted with the church and for it; and on those that are of a public spirit afflictions of that kind lie heavier than any other. It is calculated for an afflicted state, and is intended for the use of others that may be in the like distress; for whatsoever things were…
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