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Psalms 31:10

Psalms 31:10
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing,.... Which shows the continuance of his troubles, and that his whole life had been, as it were, an uninterrupted series of sorrows;

my…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

For my life is spent with grief - The word here rendered “spent” does not mean merely “passed,” as it is commonly now used, as when we say we “spent” our time at such a place, or in such a manner, but…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 31:9-18

In the foregoing verses David had appealed to God's righteousness, and pleaded his relation to him and dependence on him; here he appeals to his mercy, and pleads the greatness of his own misery,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

grief R.V. sorrow, as in Psa 13:2; Jer 8:18.

sighing Or, groaning, as in Psa 6:6.

my strength&c. My strength totters because of mine Iniquity, and my bones are wasted away. There was then some sin…