Psalms 31:10
8 You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
9 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
11 Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.
12 I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
- KJV
- For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
- WEB
- For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
- ASV
- For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
- DARBY
- For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.
- BLB
- For my life has been consumed with grief, and my years with groaning; my strength fails in my iniquity, and my bones are wasting away.
- ÅB
- For livet mitt svinner bort med sorg,
og årene mine med sukk.
Kraften min er brutt på grunn av misgjerningen min,
og beinene mine er tært bort. - OTB
- For mitt liv er fortært av sorg
Og mine år med sukk;
Min styrke har sviktet på grunn av min skyld,
Og min kropp har visnet bort. - B1930
- For mitt liv svinner bort med sorg, og mine år med sukk; min kraft er brutt for min misgjernings skyld, og mine ben er uttæret.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 32:3–4
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
Read in contextPsalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
Read in contextPsalms 88:15
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
Read in contextRomans 9:2
I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
Read in contextPsalms 78:33
So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
Read in contextPsalms 102:3–28
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
Read in contextJob 3:24
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
Read in contextPsalms 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
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