Like oil into his bones— These expressions admirably mark out an adhering rooted curse, which penetrated the body, as the water which one drinks, and as the oil with which one is rubbed: They have swallowed cursing like water; they are penetrated by it, as by the oil wherewith they have been anointed. Calmet. Houbigant thinks that the waters of jealousy are here meant. See Numbers 5:18. And Green renders it, with much seeming propriety, like marrow into his bones.
Related Commentaries of Psalms 109:18
Psalms 109:18
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowelse like water, and like oil into his bones.