Psalms 38:7
Surely man walks in a + 38:7 Gr. image.shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
In Context
8And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with thee. Pause.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 21:18And after all these things the Lord smote him in the bowels with an incurable disease.
Job 7:5And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.
Psalms 41:8Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy billows and thy waves have gone over me.
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 →