Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth,.... Into which they were not suffered to be put, but lay unburied; or from whence they were dug up, and lay scattered about; which is to be understood of…
Barnes' Notes
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth - We are, indeed, now like bones scattered in the places of graves; we seem to be weak, feeble, disorganized. We are in a condition which of itself seems…
Here, I. David desires to be told of his faults. His enemies reproached him with that which was false, which he could not but complain of; yet, at the same time, he desired his friends would reprove…
Cambridge Bible
As when one splitteth and cleaveth (wood) upon the earth,
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Precipitation from a rock was a common method of execution in ancient times (cp. 2Ch 25:12;…
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