John Trapp on Isaiah 38:10

Ver. 10. I ſaid in the cutting off of my dayes] When I looked upon my ſelf as a dead man. Here he telleth us what paſſed betwixt God and him whileſt he lay deſperately ſick. The utmoſt of a danger eſcaped is to be recognized and recorded: This will both inſtruct the judgement, enlarge the heart, and open the mouth.

I ſhall go to the gates of the grave] He maketh the grave to have gates: either by a poetical fiction, or elſe by a proverbial expreſſion. So the gates of death, Pſal. 9. 13. & 107.18. See 1 Sam. 2.6.

I am deprived of the reſidue of my years] ſc. that I might have lived in a natural courſe. Vox baec queritantis quidem eſt: Quis enim vult mori? prorſus nemo. Nature ſhunneth death as its ſlaughter-man.