On every side, i.e. in all respects, and to all intents and purposes; my person, and family, and estate. I am gone, i.e. I am a lost and dead man. Going is oft put for dying, as Genesis 15:2 Psalms 39:13. Mine hope, i.e. all my hopes of the present life, as he oft expresseth it; but not of the life to come, as appears from Job 13:15,16 Job 19:25, &c. Like a tree; which being once plucked up by the roots, never groweth again.

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