I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am shaken off like the locust.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
For oil, propter oleum. The meaning is, my flesh is changed, being perfectly emaciated, and dried up, as having lost all its oil, or fatness. (Challoner)
Or, "on account of the privation of perfumes "(Berthier) which the Jews looked upon as necessary. David and Jesus Christ were exposed to many inconveniences.