I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
KJV
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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Commentary
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind,.... Either by his friends, being out of sight, out of mind; as even the nearest relations and acquaintance are, in process of time, when dead,
Ecc 9:5
; or by the Lord; which shows the weakness of his faith, the uncomfortable frame he was in, through darkness and desertion; see
Psa 88:5
;
I am like a broken vessel; or a "perishing vessel" (c); or "a vessel of perdition" (d): the Septuagint version renders it "a lost vessel" (e); one entirely useless, wholly lost, and irrecoverably so; like a broken vessel, which can never be put together again,
Isa 30:14
; a most sad apprehension he had of himself, as if his case was desperate, and he a vessel of wrath; compare with this,
Rom 9:22
.
(c) "sicut vas periens", Montanus, Cocceius, Gejerus. (d) So Ainsworth. (e) V. L. Pagninus, Musculus, Piscator.
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