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Selected Verse: Psalms 38:6 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 38:6	Strong Concordance	I am troubled [05753]; I am bowed down [07817] greatly [03966]; I go [01980] mourning [06937] all the day [03117] long.
	King James	I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
I am troubled - Margin, "wearied." The Hebrew word means to bend, to curve; then, to be distorted, to writhe with pain, convulsions, and spasms. In Isa 21:3, the same word is rendered, "I was bowed down at the hearing of it;" that is, Sorrow so took hold of him, that at the intelligence he writhed with pain as a woman in travail. So here it means that he was bent, or bowed down, or that he writhed in pain as the result of his iniquities. I am bowed down greatly - Compare Psa 35:14. The word means properly to bow down; then, to be brought low; to be depressed with pain, grief, sorrow: Psa 10:10; Isa 2:11. I go mourning all the day long - Constantly; without any intermission. On the word rendered "go mourning" - קדר qâdar - see the notes at Psa 35:14. The idea here is, that, on account of sin, he was crushed and bowed down as a mourner is with his sorrows, and that he appeared constantly as be walked about with these badges of grief and heavy sorrow. The disease which he had, and which was so offensive to himself Psa 38:5, and to others Psa 38:11, was like the filthy and foul garments which mourners put on as expressive of their sorrow. See Job 1:20, note; Job 2:8, note.

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

I am troubled - Margin, "wearied." The Hebrew word means to bend, to curve; then, to be distorted, to writhe with pain, convulsions, and spasms. In Isa 21:3, the same word is rendered, "I was bowed down at the hearing of it;" that is, Sorrow so took hold of him, that at the intelligence he writhed with pain as a woman in travail. So here it means that he was bent, or bowed down, or that he writhed in pain as the result of his iniquities.

I am bowed down greatly - Compare Psa 35:14. The word means properly to bow down; then, to be brought low; to be depressed with pain, grief, sorrow: Psa 10:10; Isa 2:11.

I go mourning all the day long - Constantly; without any intermission. On the word rendered "go mourning" - קדר qâdar - see the notes at Psa 35:14. The idea here is, that, on account of sin, he was crushed and bowed down as a mourner is with his sorrows, and that he appeared constantly as be walked about with these badges of grief and heavy sorrow. The disease which he had, and which was so offensive to himself Psa 38:5, and to others Psa 38:11, was like the filthy and foul garments which mourners put on as expressive of their sorrow. See Job 1:20, note; Job 2:8, note.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
I am troubled - In mind. I am bowed down in body. I am altogether afflicted, and full of distress.

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⁸ And he took [03947] him a potsherd [02789] to scrape [01623] himself withal; and he sat down [03427] among [08432] the ashes [0665].

²⁰ Then Job [0347] arose [06965], and rent [07167] his mantle [04598], and shaved [01494] his head [07218], and fell down [05307] upon the ground [0776], and worshipped [07812],

¹¹ My lovers [0157] and my friends [07453] stand [05975] aloof from [05048] my sore [05061]; and my kinsmen [07138] stand [05975] afar off [07350].

⁵ My wounds [02250] stink [0887] and are corrupt [04743] because [06440] of my foolishness [0200].

¹⁴ I behaved [01980] myself as though he had been my friend [07453] or brother [0251]: I bowed down [07817] heavily [06937], as one that mourneth [057] for his mother [0517].

¹¹ The lofty [01365] looks [05869] of man [0120] shall be humbled [08213], and the haughtiness [07312] of men [0582] shall be bowed down [07817], and the LORD [03068] alone shall be exalted [07682] in that day [03117].

¹⁰ He croucheth [01794], and humbleth [07817] himself, that the poor [02426] [02489] [02489] may fall [05307] by his strong ones [06099].

¹⁴ I behaved [01980] myself as though he had been my friend [07453] or brother [0251]: I bowed down [07817] heavily [06937], as one that mourneth [057] for his mother [0517].

³ Therefore are my loins [04975] filled [04390] with pain [02479]: pangs [06735] have taken hold [0270] upon me, as the pangs [06735] of a woman that travaileth [03205]: I was bowed down [05753] at the hearing [08085] of it; I was dismayed [0926] at the seeing [07200] of it.