Psalms 102:3
For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
In Context
4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 27:9Hide not thy face from me. Put not thy servant away in anger. Thou have been my help. Cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalms 31:10For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.
Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Lamentations 1:13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
James 4:14men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
Matthew Henry on Psalms 102:2-12
Complaints in Affliction. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , and let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I… Read the whole commentary →