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Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 31:10	Strong Concordance	For my life [02416] is spent [03615] with grief [03015], and my years [08141] with sighing [0585]: my strength [03581] faileth [03782] because of mine iniquity [05771], and my bones [06106] are consumed [06244].
	King James	For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

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).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
For my life is spent with grief - The word here rendered "spent" does not mean merely "passed," as it is commonly now used, as when we say we "spent" our time at such a place, or in such a manner, but in the more proper meaning of the word, as denoting "consumed, wasted away," or "destroyed." See the word כלה kâlâh as used in Jer 16:4; Lam 2:11; Psa 84:2 (Heb. 3); Psa 143:7; Psa 69:3 Heb. 4; Job 11:20. And my years with sighing - That is, my years are wasted or consumed with sighing. Instead of being devoted to active toil and to useful effort, they are exhausted or wasted away with a grief which wholly occupies and preys upon me. My strength faileth because of mine iniquity - Because of the trouble that has come upon me for my sin. He regarded all this trouble - from whatever quarter it came, whether directly from the hand of God, or from man - as the fruit of "sin." Whether he refers to any particular sin as the cause of this trouble, or to the sin of his nature as the source of all evil, it is impossible now to determine. Since, however, no particular sin is specified, it seems most probable that the reference is to the sin of his heart - to his corrupt nature. It is common, and it is not improper, when we are afflicted, to regard all our trials as fruits of sin; as coming upon us as the result of the fall, and as an evidence that we are depraved. It is certain that there is no suffering in heaven, and that there never would be any in a perfectly holy world. It is equally certain that all the woes of earth are the consequence of man's apostasy; and it is proper, therefore, when we are afflicted, even though we cannot trace the affliction to any "particular" offence, to trace it all to the existence of evil, and to regard it as among the proofs of the divine displeasure against sin. And my bones are consumed - That is, are decayed, worn out, or wasted away. Even the solid framework of my body gives way under excessive grief, and all my strength is gone. See Psa 32:3; Psa 102:3.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

For my life is spent with grief - The word here rendered "spent" does not mean merely "passed," as it is commonly now used, as when we say we "spent" our time at such a place, or in such a manner, but in the more proper meaning of the word, as denoting "consumed, wasted away," or "destroyed." See the word כלה kâlâh as used in Jer 16:4; Lam 2:11; Psa 84:2 (Heb. 3); Psa 143:7; Psa 69:3 Heb. 4; Job 11:20.

And my years with sighing - That is, my years are wasted or consumed with sighing. Instead of being devoted to active toil and to useful effort, they are exhausted or wasted away with a grief which wholly occupies and preys upon me.

My strength faileth because of mine iniquity - Because of the trouble that has come upon me for my sin. He regarded all this trouble - from whatever quarter it came, whether directly from the hand of God, or from man - as the fruit of "sin." Whether he refers to any particular sin as the cause of this trouble, or to the sin of his nature as the source of all evil, it is impossible now to determine. Since, however, no particular sin is specified, it seems most probable that the reference is to the sin of his heart - to his corrupt nature. It is common, and it is not improper, when we are afflicted, to regard all our trials as fruits of sin; as coming upon us as the result of the fall, and as an evidence that we are depraved. It is certain that there is no suffering in heaven, and that there never would be any in a perfectly holy world. It is equally certain that all the woes of earth are the consequence of man's apostasy; and it is proper, therefore, when we are afflicted, even though we cannot trace the affliction to any "particular" offence, to trace it all to the existence of evil, and to regard it as among the proofs of the divine displeasure against sin.

And my bones are consumed - That is, are decayed, worn out, or wasted away. Even the solid framework of my body gives way under excessive grief, and all my strength is gone. See Psa 32:3; Psa 102:3.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Iniquity - For the punishment of mine iniquity. Consumed - The juice and marrow of them bring almost dried up with grief.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
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 - אנחה 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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¹² For innumerable [04557] evils [07451] have compassed [0661] me about: mine iniquities [05771] have taken hold [05381] upon me, so that I am not able [03201] to look up [07200]; they are more [06105] than the hairs [08185] of mine head [07218]: therefore my heart [03820] faileth [05800] me.

³ For my days [03117] are consumed [03615] like smoke [06227], and my bones [06106] are burned [02787] as an hearth [04168].

³ When I kept silence [02790], my bones [06106] waxed old [01086] through my roaring [07581] all the day [03117] long.

²⁰ But the eyes [05869] of the wicked [07563] shall fail [03615], and they shall not escape [06] [04498], and their hope [08615] shall be as the giving up [04646] of the ghost [05315].

³ I am weary [03021] of my crying [07121]: my throat [01627] is dried [02787]: mine eyes [05869] fail [03615] while I wait [03176] for my God [0430].

⁷ Hear [06030] me speedily [04118], O LORD [03068]: my spirit [07307] faileth [03615]: hide [05641] not thy face [06440] from me, lest I be like [04911] unto them that go down [03381] into the pit [0953].

² My soul [05315] longeth [03700], yea, even fainteth [03615] for the courts [02691] of the LORD [03068]: my heart [03820] and my flesh [01320] crieth out [07442] for the living [02416] God [0410].

¹¹ Mine eyes [05869] do fail [03615] with tears [01832], my bowels [04578] are troubled [02560], my liver [03516] is poured [08210] upon the earth [0776], for the destruction [07667] of the daughter [01323] of my people [05971]; because the children [05768] and the sucklings [03243] swoon [05848] in the streets [07339] of the city [07151].

⁴ They shall die [04191] of grievous [08463] deaths [04463]; they shall not be lamented [05594]; neither shall they be buried [06912]; but they shall be as dung [01828] upon the face [06440] of the earth [0127]: and they shall be consumed [03615] by the sword [02719], and by famine [07458]; and their carcases [05038] shall be meat [03978] for the fowls [05775] of heaven [08064], and for the beasts [0929] of the earth [0776].