Psalms 102:3
For my days pass away like smoke: my bones are burned through as with fire.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
In Context
4My heart is scorched, withered like grass; I forget to eat my bread.
Cross References
Psalms 27:9Hide not your face from me, reject not your servant in anger: for you have been my help. Abandon me not, nor forsake me, O God of my help:
Psalms 31:10For my life is consumed with grief, and my years with sighing. My strength is broken with misery, my bones waste away.
Psalms 38:3In my flesh is no soundness because of your anger, no health in my bones, because of my sin.
James 4:14yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! For you are but a puff of smoke that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 102:2-12
Complaints in Affliction. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , and let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I… Read the whole commentary →