Psalms 38:16

For I am ready to halt,.... Meaning either that there was a proneness in him to sin; see Jer 20:10; or that he was subject to affliction and adversity, as the same word is rendered in Psa 35:15; and…

For I said - This is the prayer to which he referred in the previous verse. He prayed that he might not be permitted to fall away under the influence of his sins and sufferings; that his faith might…

In these verses,

I. David complains of the power and malice of his enemies, who, it should seem, not only took occasion from the weakness of his body and the trouble of his mind to insult over him,…

For I said, Lest they rejoice over me (R.V.). This was the plea which he urged in his prayer (Psa 25:2; Psa 35:19). The enemies of the godly man rejoice at his calamities, for they see in them a proof…