Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 109:23

23. I am gone like the shadow, when it declineth : I am tossed up and down as the locust .

Heb. I am made to go, either, 1. from place to place; which was Davids case when he was persecuted by Saul and by Absalom; and Christs case upon earth, where he had no certain place where to lay his head, Mat. 8. 20. Or, 2. into the grave, as this phrase is used 1 Chron. 17. 11. Psal. 58. 9. and oft elsewhere.

Towards the evening, when, the Sun setting, it vanisheth instantly, and irrecoverably until the Sun rise again, which it never will do to me in this world, when once I am gone out of it.

Which of it self is unstable, continually skipping from place to place, and is easily driven away with every wind. So am I exposed to perpetual and successive changes within my self, and to a thousand violences and mischiefs from other persons and things.

Marginal references: Psal. 102. 11.