Psalms 38:5

Behold, you have made my days + 38:5 Alex. a span long. old; and my existence is as nothing before you: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause. 1

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

In Context

4O Lord, make me to know my end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack. 1

6Surely man walks in a + 38:6 Gr. image. shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 32:3Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. 1

Psalms 40:13Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. So be it, so be it.

Psalms 69:5But I am poor and needy; O God, help me: you are my helper and deliverer, O Lord, delay not.

Jeremiah 8:22And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?

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 →

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