תהלים 102:11

Hebrew Modern Translation

ימי כצל נטוי ואני כעשב איבש׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[102:12] כצל נטוי ואני כעשב איבש

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[102:12] יָ֭מַי כְּצֵ֣ל נָט֑וּי וַ֝אֲנִ֗י כָּעֵ֥שֶׂב אִיבָֽשׁ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[102:12] יָמַי כְּצֵל נָטוּי וַאֲנִי כָּעֵשֶׂב אִיבָֽשׁ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

My days: Psalms 102:3, Psalms 39:5, Psalms 39:6, Psalms 109:23, Psalms 144:4, Job 14:2, Ecclesiastes 6:12, James 4:14

I am withered: Psalms 102:4, Isaiah 40:6-8, James 1:10, 1 Peter 1:24

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:26 - they were 1 Chronicles 29:15 - our days Job 7:6 - swifter Job 8:9 - we are but Job 19:10 - I am gone Psalms 39:11 - his beauty Isaiah 38:12 - is removed Lamentations 4:8 - their skin

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My days are like a shadow that declineth,.... Or, "that is stretched out" s, which, though it may appear long, is soon at an end; as it does appear longer when the sun sets t, and departs from the earth: he reckons his life not by months and years, but by days; and these he compares to a "shadow", which has no substance in it; his age being as nothing before the Lord, and has much darkness and obscurity in it; his days being days of darkness, affliction, and trouble, and quickly gone, as man's life is; there is no abiding; see

1 Chronicles 29:15. Pindar u calls man the dream of a shadow:

and I am withered like grass; which in the morning is flourishing, is cut down at noon, and withered at evening: this is the case of all flesh, however beautiful and goodly it may look; it is weak, frail, and mortal; cannot stand before the force of afflictions, which quickly consume strength and beauty, and much less before the scythe of death; see Psalms 90:5.

s נטוי "inclinata", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Musculus, Cocceius; "extensa", Michaelis. t "Et sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras", Virgil. Bacol. Eclog. 2. u Pyth. Ode 8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My days are like a shadow that declineth - The shadow made by the gnomon on a sun-dial, which marks the hours as they pass. See 2 Kings 20:10. The idea is that the shadow made by the descending sun was about to disappear altogether. It had become less distinct and clear, and it would soon vanish. It would seem from this, that the dial was so made that the shadow indicating the hour ascended when the sun ascended, and declined when the sun went down. See the notes at Isaiah 38:8.

And I am withered like grass - See the notes at Psalms 102:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 102:11. My days are like a shadow that declineth — Or rather, My days decline like the shadow. I have passed my meridian, and the sun of my prosperity is about to set for ever. There may be here an allusion to the declination of the sun towards the south, which, by shortening their days, would greatly lengthen their nights. Similar to the exclamation of a contemporary prophet, Jeremiah 8:20: "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." There is now scarcely any human hope of our deliverance.