For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me - the aggregate of both the sins of the whole world and their penal consequences (Isaiah 53:4-6; Mark 15:28; 2 Corinthians 5:21). Not only was He "compassed" on all sides with countless "evils," but the mass of "iniquities" was laid upon His head.
So that I am not able to look up - mine eye-sight fails me through anguish (Psalms 38:10; Job 16:16). In the parallelism, the first of this verse's four clauses answers to the third, and the second to the fourth.