3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
3 When I kept it all inside, my bones turned to powder, my words became daylong groans.
3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long.
3 When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 32:3
Commentary on Psalm 32:3-7
(Read Psalm 32:3-7)
It is very difficult to bring sinful man humbly to accept free mercy, with a full confession of his sins and self-condemnation. But the true and only way to peace of conscience, is, to confess our sins, that they may be forgiven; to declare them that we may be justified. Although repentance and confession do not merit the pardon of transgression, they are needful to the real enjoyment of forgiving mercy. And what tongue can tell the happiness of that hour, when the soul, oppressed by sin, is enabled freely to pour forth its sorrows before God, and to take hold of his covenanted mercy in Christ Jesus! Those that would speed in prayer, must seek the Lord, when, by his providence, he calls them to seek him, and, by his Spirit, stirs them up to seek him. In a time of finding, when the heart is softened with grief, and burdened with guilt; when all human refuge fails; when no rest can be found to the troubled mind, then it is that God applies the healing balm by his Spirit.