Psalms 38:5
(38:6) Foul, corrupt are my bruises because of my folly.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
In Context
4(38:5) For my iniquities are passed over my head, as a heavy burden are they too heavy for me.
6(38:7) I am bent double; I am bowed down to the utmost; all the day long I go about full of grief.
Cross References
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my crying all the day.
Psalms 40:13(40:14) Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, hasten to my help.
Psalms 69:5(69:6) O God, thou art well aware of my folly, and my guilty deeds are from thee not hidden.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no [more] balm in Gil'ad? or is no physician there? why then is there not placed a plaster [on the wound of] the daughter of my people?
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 →