Psalms 38:1,2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure I confess that I both deserve chastisement and need it, and therefore I do not desire that thou shouldest entirely remove it, but only moderate it: see Psalms 6:1. For thine arrows Thy judgments inflicted on my outward and inward man; stick fast in me Have entered deep into me, as נחיו בי, nichathu bi, is properly rendered; and thy hand presseth me sore תנחת עלי, tinchath gnali, is come down upon me; as when a strong man lifts up his hand and weapon, that it may fall down with the greater violence, and make a deeper wound.