Commentary of Charles Spurgeon, Adam Clarke & Matthew Henry
Or ever the silver cord be loosed,
or the golden bowl be broken,
or the
pitcher be broken at the fountain,
or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Vs.6
--Then shall the silver cord, by which
soul and body were wonderfully fastened together, be loosed, that sacred
knot untied, and those old friends be forced to part; 
--then shall the golden
bowl, which held the waters of life for us, be broken;
--then shall the
pitcher with which we used to fetch up water, for the constant support of
life and the repair of its decays, be broken, even at the fountain,
so that it can fetch up no more;
--and the wheel (all those organs that
serve for the collecting and distributing of nourishment) shall be broken,
and disabled to do their office any more.
Death will resolve us into
our first principles
