Isaiah 38:10

Isa 38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

Ver. 10. I said in the cutting off of my days. ] When I looked upon myself as a dead man. Here he telleth us what passed between God and him while he lay desperately sick. The utmost of a danger escaped is to be recognised and recorded. This will both instruct the judgment, enlarge the heart, and open the mouth.

I shall go to the gates of the grave. ] He maketh the grave to have gates, either by a poetic fiction, or else by a proverbial expression. So "the gates of death." Psalms 9:13 ; Psa 107:18 1Sa 2:6

I am deprived of the residue of my years, ] sc., That I might have lived in a natural course. Vox haec queritantis quidem est: Quis enim vult mori? prorsus nemo. Nature shunneth death as its slaughter man.