10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone
10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.
10 My heart's about to break; I'm a burned-out case. Cataracts blind me to God and good;
10 My heart pants, my strength fails me; As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.
10 My heart beats wildly, my strength fails, and I am going blind.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 38:10
Commentary on Psalm 38:1-11
(Read Psalm 38:1-11)
Nothing will disquiet the heart of a good man so much as the sense of God's anger. The way to keep the heart quiet, is to keep ourselves in the love of God. But a sense of guilt is too heavy to bear; and would sink men into despair and ruin, unless removed by the pardoning mercy of God. If there were not sin in our souls, there would be no pain in our bones, no illness in our bodies. The guilt of sin is a burden to the whole creation, which groans under it. It will be a burden to the sinners themselves, when they are heavy-laden under it, or a burden of ruin, when it sinks them to hell. When we perceive our true condition, the Good Physician will be valued, sought, and obeyed. Yet many let their wounds rankle, because they delay to go to their merciful Friend. When, at any time, we are distempered in our bodies, we ought to remember how God has been dishonoured in and by our bodies. The groanings which cannot be uttered, are not hid from Him that searches the heart, and knows the mind of the Spirit. David, in his troubles, was a type of Christ in his agonies, of Christ on his cross, suffering and deserted.