Psa 6:2, 7, 31:9-11 | JFB | STEP | 2. I am weak —as a culled plant ( ). my bones —the very frame. are vexed

Psalms 6:2

2. I am weak—as a culled plant (Isa 24:4).

my bones—the very frame.

are vexed— (Ps 2:5) —shaken with fear.

7. consumed—or, "has failed," denoting general debility (Ps 13:3; 38:10).

waxeth old—or, "dim."

grief—mingled with indignation.

9, 10. mine eye, &c.—denotes extreme weakness (compare Ps 6:7).

grief—mingled sorrow and indignation (Ps 6:7).

soul and . . . belly—the whole person.

10. 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 Ps 40:12).

11. among—or, literally, "from," or, "by" my enemies. The latter clauses describe the progress of his disgrace to the lowest degree, till,