He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

Destroyed ... on every side - `shaken all round, so that I fall in the dust:' image from a tree uprooted by violent shaking from every side (Umbreit) The last clause accords with this (Jeremiah 1:10).

Mine hope - as to this life (in opposition to Zophar, Job 11:18): not us to the world to come (Job 19:25; Job 14:15).

Removed - uprooted. The tree, when merely cut above, may revive, but not when torn up by the roots: so is my hope utterly gone (Job 14:7; Job 14:9; Job 14:19).

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