ABSTRACT
THE DANGERS OF OMISSION are obvious enough.The reader will fail to fill in the blank-or will fill it improperly. Few people who read for the first time Isaiah 38:12 will be able to supply the omission, or perhaps even to see where it occurs. "Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life." It is only when you think about the weaver that you begin to suspect something has been omitted, that the last part of the verse should have its analogy filled out a bit. "I have cut off my life as a weaver cuts off his threads." The author has assumed that his readers know more about weaving than most of us do now. Hence the danger of this omission.
