Psalms 38:7
Surely man walks in a shadow; 1 Nay, he is disquieted in vain: 1 He lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them. 1
Updated 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? 1 And my ground of hope is with thee. Pause. 1
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; 1 And I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption. 1
Psalms 41:8Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: 1 All thy billows and thy waves have gone over me. 1
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 →