Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 141:7

7 Our bones are scattered at the graves mouth , as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth .

My bones and the bones of my friends and followers. Our skin and flesh is in a manner consumed, and there is nothing left of us but a company of dead and dry bones. Whereby he intimates that their condition was desperate. Comp. Ezek. 37. 11.

Either, 1. literally and properly. So barbarously cruel were our enemies, that they not onely killed us, but left our carkasses unburied, by which means our flesh and sinews, &c. were consumed or torn in pieces by wild [illegible: 1+ letters]easts, and our bones dispersed upon the face of the earth our common grave: or, if any of my followers were dead and buried, they pulled their bones out of the grave, and scattered them about: or rather, 2. Metaphorically. So the sence is, Our case is almost as hopeless as of those who are dead, and whose bones are scattered in several places.

As much neglected and despised by them as the chips which a Carpenter makes when he is cutting wood, which he will not stoop to take up. Or rather, as the LXX. and Chaldee and Syriack understand it, and as it is in the Hebrew, as when one (to wit, the husbandman) cutteth and cleaveth the earth or in the earth; which he teareth without any mercy.