Psalms 38:17
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
In Context
16For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
Cross References
Psalms 13:5But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.
Psalms 35:19Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
Psalms 77:2In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
Micah 4:6“On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:13-22
Sorrowful Complaints. 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O Lord , do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves… Read the whole commentary →