Tree of Life Version
Psalms 38:17
17For I said: “Don’t let them gloat over me or exalt themselves over me, when my foot slips.”
Psalms 38:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
- New International Version (NIV)For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
Context of Psalms 38:17
15Yes, I am like one who cannot hear, whose mouth has no arguments. 16But I wait for You, Adonai— You will answer, O Lord my God. For I said: “Don’t let them gloat over me or exalt themselves over me, when my foot slips.” 18For I am about to fall, and my pain is before me constantly. 19So I confess my guilt. I am troubled because of my sin.
Read all of Psalms 38Psalms 38:17 word by word
כִּֽי־אֲ֭נִי לְצֶ֣לַע נָכ֑וֹן וּמַכְאוֹבִ֖י נֶגְדִּ֣י תָמִֽיד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 38:17
- Psalms 35:15But at my stumbling they gathered in glee. Wretches gathered against me whom I did not know, tearing at me without ceasing.
- Micah 4:6“In that day” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “I will gather her who is limping, and her who was banished will I collect, even those whom I have afflicted.
- Psalms 38:6My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.
- Psalms 6:6For there is no memory of You in death, in Sheol who will praise You?
- Psalms 77:2My voice to God—and I cried out, my voice to God—and He heard me!
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, One from whom people hide their faces. He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Commentaries on Psalms 38:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17For I am ready to halt - Literally, I am prepared to halt. So completely infirm is my soul, that it is impossible for me to take one right step in the way of righteousness, unless strengthened by thee.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17For I am ready to halt - Margin, as in Hebrew, “for halting.” The word from which the word used here is derived means properly to lean on one side, and then to halt or limp. The meaning here is, that he was like one who was limping along, and who was ready to fall; that is, in the case here referred to, he felt that his strength was almost gone, and that he was in continual danger of falling into sin, or sinking under his accumulated burdens, and of thus…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-22Verses 12-22 Wicked men hate goodness, even when they benefit by it. David, in the complaints he makes of his enemies, seems to refer to Christ. But our enemies do us real mischief only when they drive us from God and our duty. The true believer's trouble will be made useful; he will learn to wait for his God, and will not seek relief from the world or himself. The less we notice the unkindness and injuries that are done us, the more we consult the quiet…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-20The psalmist, unable to bear his suffering and close to collapse (compare Psalm 15:5), admits his sin (see Psalm 32:5).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-1715-17. for he is confident the Lord--literally, "Sovereign" (to whom he was a servant), would answer his prayer (Psa 3:4; 4:1), and not permit their triumph in his partial halting, of which he was in danger.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 38
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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