Psalms 38:5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
In Context
4For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Cross References
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
Psalms 40:13Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
Psalms 69:5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from thee.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:2-12
Sorrowful Complaints. 1 O Lord , rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7… Read the whole commentary →