Psalms 38 · Verse 6

Psalms 38:6

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Psalms 38:6, King James Version

Psalms 38:6 in other translations

BSBI am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
WEBI am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
ASVI am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
YLTI have been bent down, I have been bowed down--unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.
DARBYI am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.
BBEI am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
WebsterI am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

What does Psalms 38:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 38:5-8

5-8. The loathsomeness, corruption, and wasting torture of severe physical disease set forth his mental anguish [Psa 38:6]. It is possible some bodily disease was connected. The loins are the seat of strength. His exhaustion left him only the power to groan [Psa 38:9].

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 I am troubled - In mind. I am bowed down in body. I am altogether afflicted, and full of distress.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 38:1-11

Nothing will disquiet the heart of a good man so much as the sense of God's anger. The way to keep the heart quiet, is to keep ourselves in the love of God. But a sense of guilt is too heavy to bear; and would sink men into despair and ruin, unless removed by the pardoning mercy of God. If there were not sin in our souls, there would be no pain in our bones, no illness in our bodies. The guilt of sin is a burden to…

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Psalms 38:6 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.

נַעֲוֵ֣יתִיna.'a.Vei.tiI am bent downH5753
שַׁחֹ֣תִיsha.Cho.tiI am bent overH7817
עַד\־'ad-up toH5704
מְאֹ֑דme.'OdmuchnessH3966
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
הַ֝יּ֗וֹםhai.Yomthe dayH3117
קֹדֵ֥רko.DermourningH6937
הִלָּֽכְתִּי\׃hi.La.khe.tiI have gone aboutH1980

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

Cross references for Psalms 38:6

  • Job 30:28

    I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

  • Psalms 35:14

    I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

  • Psalms 42:9

    I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 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 42:5

    Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

  • Psalms 145:14

    The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

  • Psalms 43:2

    For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Psalms 57:6

    They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Psalms 6:6

    I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

  • Psalms 88:9

    Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

  • Isaiah 38:14

    Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
troubled. Heb. wearied. bowed.
35:14; 42:5; *marg:
57:6; 145:14
mourning.
6:6; 31:10; 42:9; 43:2; 88:9; Job 30:28; Isa 38:14

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

Context

  • Psalms 38:5

    My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

  • Psalms 38:6

    I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • Psalms 38:7

    For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

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Psalms 38:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Estoy encorvado, estoy humillado en gran manera, ando enlutado todo el día.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mes plaies sont fétides, elles coulent, à cause de ma folie.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ich bin gekrümmt, über die Maßen gebeugt; den ganzen Tag gehe ich trauernd einher.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos, et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te. Verumtamen universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens.