Psalms 38:6
(38:7) I am bent double; I am bowed down to the utmost; all the day long I go about full of grief.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
In Context
5(38:6) Foul, corrupt are my bruises because of my folly.
7(38:8) For my loins are filled with a burning disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Cross References
Job 30:28I walk about mournfully without sunlight: when I rise up, in the assembly, I cry with pain.
Psalms 31:10(31:11) For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing, my strength faileth because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 42:5(42:6) Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and disquieted in me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet thank him, because of the salvation of his countenance.
Psalms 43:2For thou art the God of my fortress: why hast thou abandoned me? why must I walk about grieved, under the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 88:9(88:10) My eye languisheth by reason of affliction: I call on thee, O Lord, every day, I stretch out unto thee my hands.
Psalms 145:14The Lord upholdeth all who are falling, and raiseth up all those who are bowed down.
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 →