Benefits of Affliction—Teaches Our Frailties

Scripture

KJV

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

ESV

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end.

Isaiah 38:12

Poem

Lord, let me know mine end,
My days, how brief their date,
That I may timely comprehend
How frail my best estate.