C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch on Deuteronomy 28:66

Deu 28:66

“Thy life will be hung up before thee,” i.e., will be like some valued object, hanging by a thin thread before thine eyes, which any moment might tear down (Knobel), that is to say, will be ever hanging in the greatest danger. “Thou wilt not believe in thy life,” i.e., thou wilt despair of its preservation (cf. Job. Deu 24:22).“I have never seen a passage which describes more clearly the misery of a guilty conscience, in words and thoughts so fitting and appropriate. For this is just the way in which a man is affected, who knows that God is offended, i.e., who is harassed with the consciousness of sin”' (Luther).