Psalms 38:5
My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
In Context
4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
Cross References
Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
Psalms 40:13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.
Psalms 69:5You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
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 →