For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Ver. 10. For my life is spent with grief, &c.] Which threateneth the thread of life, and soon snappeth it in sunder, 2 Corinthians 7:10. See Proverbs 17:22; Proverbs 17:25. See Trapp on " Pro 17:22 " See Trapp on " Pro 17:25 "
My strength faileth] So that I stumble and stagger, Psalms 27:2 .
Because of mine iniquity] Or, my misery; for sin hales misery at the heels of it; and the Scripture often confoundeth the names of the cause and of the effects.
And my bones are consumed] Heb. moth eaten.