Psalms 88:8 - Exposition

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me. Compare the similar complaint of Job ( Job 19:13 , Job 19:14 ); and see also Psalms 31:11 ; and infra, Psalms 31:18 . Thou hast made me an abomination unto them. So Job ( Job 9:31 ; Job 19:19 ; Job 30:10 ). It may be suspected that the psalmist's affliction was of a kind which made him "unclean." I am shut up. Not in prison, as Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 32:2 ; Jeremiah 33:1 ; Jeremiah 36:5 ), but probably as unclean, or as suspected of Being unclean (see Le Jeremiah 13:4 -33). And I cannot come forth. I am not allowed to quit my chamber.