Psalms 38:5
Stunk — become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
In Context
4For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden — too heavy for me.
6I have been bent down, I have been bowed down — unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.
Cross References
Psalms 32:3When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
Psalms 40:13Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help make haste.
Psalms 69:5O God, Thou — Thou hast known Concerning my overturn, And my desolations from Thee have not been hid.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up?
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 →