Psalms Chapter 32 verse 3 Holy Bible
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
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When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
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When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
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When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.
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When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
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When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
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Psalms 32 : 3 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - When I kept silence; i.e. so long as I did not acknowledge my sin - while I remained silent about it, quite aware that I hod sinned grievously, suffering in conscience, but not confessing it even to myself. The time spoken of is that which immediately followed the commission of the adultery, and which continued until Nathan uttered the words, "Thou art the man!" (2 Samuel 12:7). My bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long; i.e. I suffered grievous pain, both bodily and mental. My bones ached (comp. Psalm 6:2; Psalm 31:10); and I "roared," or groaned, in spirit, all the day long." Unconfessed sin rankles in the heart of a man who is not far gone in vice, but has been surprised into a wicked action, no sooner done than regretted. Such a one, in Archbishop Leighton's words, "Vulnus alit venis et caeco carpitur igne."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) When I kept.--He describes his state of mind before he could bring himself to confess his sin (the rendering of the particle ki by when, comp. Hosea 11:1, is quite correct). Like that knight of story, in whom"His mood was often like a fiend, and roseAnd drove him into wastes and solitudesFor agony, who was yet a living soul,"this man could not live sleek and smiling in his sin, but was so tortured by "remorseful pain" that his body bore the marks of his mental anguish, which, no doubt, "had marr'd his face, and marked it ere his time."My bones waxed old.--For this expression comp. Psalm 6:2.
