Psalms 31:10

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.”

— WEB

“For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.”

— KJV

“For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.”

— ASV

Bible Verses About Grief

Cross-references

Related verses via the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Psalms 38:3 "There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin."
Psalms 88:15 "I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted."
Psalms 32:3-4 "When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long."
Romans 9:2 "that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart."
Psalms 78:33 "Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror."
Job 3:24 "For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water."
Psalms 13:2 "How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?"
Psalms 39:11 "When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah."

Commentary

Though the effects ascribed to grief are not mere figures of speech-- spent . . . consumed--must be taken in the modified sense of wasted and decayed. iniquity--or, suffering by it (see on Psa 40:12).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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