Psalms 31:10

8 And have not ^ashut me up into the hand of the enemy;
^bYou have set my feet in a wide place.

9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
^aMy eye wastes away with grief,
Yes, my soul and my¹ body!

10 For my life is spent with grief,
And my years with sighing;
My strength fails because of my iniquity,
And my bones waste away.

11 ^aI am a¹ reproach among all my enemies,
But ^bespecially among my neighbors,
And am repulsive to my acquaintances;
^cThose who see me outside flee from me.

12 ^aI am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a¹ broken vessel.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Psalms 31:10

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 - 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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