Psalms 88 · Verse 4

Psalms 88:4

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalms 88:4, King James Version

Psalms 88:4 in other translations

BSBI am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
WEBI am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
ASVI am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
YLTI have been reckoned with those going down to the pit, I have been as a man without strength.
DARBYI am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
BBEI am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
WebsterI am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

What does Psalms 88:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. go ... pit--of destruction (Psa 28:1). as a man--literally, "a stout man," whose strength is utterly gone.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 I am counted with them, etc. - I am as good as dead; nearly destitute of life and hope.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 88:1-9

The first words of the psalmist are the only words of comfort and support in this psalm. Thus greatly may good men be afflicted, and such dismal thoughts may they have about their afflictions, and such dark conclusion may they make about their end, through the power of melancholy and the weakness of faith. He complained most of God's displeasure. Even the children of God's love may sometimes think themselves…

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Psalms 88:4 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.

נֶ֭חְשַׁבְתִּיNech.shav.tiI am reckonedH2803
עִם\־'im-withH5973
י֣וֹרְדֵיYor.dei[those who] go down ofH3381
ב֑וֹרVor[the] pitH953
הָ֝יִ֗יתִיha.Yi.tiI amH1961
כְּגֶ֣בֶרke.Ge.verlike a manH1397
אֵֽין\־'ein-[whom] there notH369
אֱיָֽל\׃'e.Yal[is] strengthH353

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

Cross references for Psalms 88:4

  • Psalms 28:1

    A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

  • 2 Corinthians 1:9

    But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

  • Isaiah 38:17-18

    Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

  • Psalms 31:12

    I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • Psalms 143:7

    Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

  • Job 17:1

    My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • 2 Corinthians 13:4

    For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

  • Psalms 30:9

    What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

  • Psalms 109:22-24

    For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

  • Romans 5:6

    For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

  • Jonah 2:6

    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

  • Ezekiel 26:20

    When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
counted.
28:1; 30:9; 143:7; Job 17:1; Isa 38:17,18; Eze 26:20; Jon 2:6
2Co 1:9
as a man.
31:12; 109:22-24; Ro 5:6; 2Co 13:4

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Context

  • Psalms 88:3

    For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

  • Psalms 88:4

    I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

  • Psalms 88:5

    Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

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Psalms 88:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Soy contado con los que descienden al hoyo, soy como hombre sin fuerza:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car mon âme est rassasiée de maux, et ma vie touche au shéol.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ich bin gerechnet zu denen, die in die Grube hinabfahren; ich bin wie ein Mann, der keine Kraft hat;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Disposui testamentum electis meis; juravi David servo meo: