My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
My heart was hot within me; while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue - (cf. Jeremiah 20:9.) On "musing," cf. note, Psalms 5:1, 'meditation.' The subject of his meditative musing was his sufferings from the wicked. David was unable longer to repress the pent-up fire from breaking forth into hasty and fretful words. So Job at first, under his trials, "sinned not with his lips, nor charged God foolishly." At last "Job opened his month and cursed his day" (Job 1:22; Job 2:10; Job 3:1).