Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Why, х `al (H5921) meh (H4100)] or, as Vulgate, On What part. Image from a body covered all over with marks of blows (Psalms 38:3). There is no part in which you have not been smitten. But the Septuagint and Syriac support the English version.
The whole head is sick ... - not referring, as it is commonly quoted, to their sins, much less to the total depravity of human nature generally, but to the universality of their punishment. However sin, the moral disease of the head, or intellect, and the heart, is doubtless made its own punishment (Proverbs 1:31). "Sick-literature, is in a state of sickness (Gesenius). 'Has passed into lª- sickness' (Maurer).