Psalms 31 · Verse 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.
Psalms 31:10, King James Version

Psalms 31:10 in other translations

BSBFor my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
WEBFor my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
ASVFor my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
YLTFor my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.
DARBYFor my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.
BBEMy life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
WebsterFor my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

What does Psalms 31:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 31:9-10

9-10. mine eye, &c.--denotes extreme weakness (compare Psa 6:7). grief--mingled sorrow and indignation (Psa 6:7). soul and ... belly--the whole person.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 My life is spent with grief - My life is a life of suffering and distress, and by grief my days are shortened. Grief disturbs the functions of life, prevents the due concoction of food, injures the digestive organs, destroys appetite, impairs the nervous system, relaxes the muscles, induces morbid action in the animal economy, and hastens death. These effects are well expressed in the verse itself. My years with sighing - אנחה anachah. This is a mere natural expression of grief; the very sounds which proceed from a distressed mind; an-ach-ah! common, with little variation, to all nations, and nearly the same in all languages. The och-och-on of the Irish is precisely the same sound, and the same sense. Thousands of beauties or this kind are to be found in the sacred language.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 31:9-18

David's troubles made him a man of sorrows. Herein he was a type of Christ, who was acquainted with grief. David acknowledged that his afflictions were merited by his own sins, but Christ suffered for ours. David's friends durst not give him any assistance. Let us not think it strange if thus deserted, but make sure of a Friend in heaven who will not fail. God will be sure to order and dispose all for the best, to…

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Psalms 31:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֤יkiforH3588
כָל֪וּkha.Luthey have wasted awayH3615
בְיָג֡וֹןve.ya.Gonin sorrowH3015
חַיַּי֮chai.Yailife myH2416
וּשְׁנוֹתַ֪יu.she.no.Taiand years myH8141
בַּאֲנָ֫חָ֥הba.'a.Na.Chahwith groaningH585
כָּשַׁ֣לka.Shalit has failedH3782
בַּעֲוֹנִ֣יba.'a.vo.Niby iniquity myH5771
כֹחִ֑יkho.Chistrength myH3581
וַעֲצָמַ֥יva.'a.tza.Maiand bones myH6106
עָשֵֽׁשׁוּ\׃'a.She.shuthey have wasted awayH6244

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 31:10

  • Psalms 32:3-4

    When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

  • Psalms 38:3

    There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

  • Psalms 88:15

    I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

  • Romans 9:2

    That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

  • Psalms 78:33

    Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

  • Psalms 102:3-28

    For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. …

  • Job 3:24

    For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  • Psalms 39:11

    When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

  • Psalms 13:2

    How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

  • Psalms 71:9

    Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
my life.
78:33; 88:15; 102:3-28; Job 3:24; Ro 9:2
strength.
71:9
bones.
32:3,4; 102:3-5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 31:9

    Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

  • 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.

  • Psalms 31:11

    I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

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Psalms 31:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Porque mi vida se va gastando de dolor, y mis años de suspirar: hase enflaquecido mi fuerza á causa de mi iniquidad, y mis huesos se han consumido.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Éternel! use de grâce envers moi, car je suis dans la détresse; mon œil dépérit de chagrin, mon âme et mon ventre;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Denn vor Kummer schwindet mein Leben dahin, und meine Jahre vor Seufzen; meine Kraft wankt durch meine Ungerechtigkeit, und es verfallen meine Gebeine.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Multa flagella peccatoris; sperantem autem in Domino misericordia circumdabit.