Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 38:14
Verse Psalms 38:14. No reproofs.] תוכחות tochachoth, arguments or vindications; a forensic term. I was as a man accused in open court, and I could make no defence.
Verse Psalms 38:14. No reproofs.] תוכחות tochachoth, arguments or vindications; a forensic term. I was as a man accused in open court, and I could make no defence.
THUS I WAS AS A MAN THAT HEARETH NOT - The sentiment in the former verse is repeated here to show the greatness of his patience and forbearance, or to fix the attention on the fact that one who was so...
Psalms 38 The Suffering Saint and Confession of Sin _ 1. Suffering and Humiliation (Psalms 38:1)_ 2. Looking to the Lord (Psalms 38:9) 3. Confession and prayer ...
XXXVIII. A PENITENTIAL PSALM. After a short prayer for pity (verbally identical with Psalms 6:2), the poet describes his bodily and mental pains, the desertion of his friends, and the unscrupulous att...
MAN. Hebrew. _'Ish_. App-14....
The neglect of friends and the scorn of enemies augment his sufferings....
Yea, I am become like a man that hath no hearing; And in whose mouth are no arguments. No arguments for his own defence. Cp. Job 23:4, where Job desires to argue with God....
Conscious of guilt he must keep silence and commit his cause to God, resigned and patient as though he did not hear the insults, or had no power to answer them. Cp. Psalms 39:9; Isaiah 53:7; 1 Peter 2...
PSALMS 38 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer for Deliverance from Disease and from Enemies. ANALYSIS Part I. _Against Disease._ Stanza I., Psalms 38:1-2, Jehovah's Anger Deprecated. Stanza II., Psalms 38:3-5...
_THUS I WAS AS A MAN THAT HEARETH NOT, AND IN WHOSE MOUTH ARE NO REPROOFS._ Thus I was as a man ... in whose mouth are no reproofs - or, 'no contradictions.' So when the children of Belial despised S...
This Ps. may be compared with Psalms 6. It is the prayer of one who, like Job, is in great bodily suffering (Psalms 38:1), and is also deserted by his friends (Psalms 38:11), and beset by treacherous...
NO REPROOFS] no arguments in his own defence....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
REPROOFS. — Better, _replies_ or _justifications,_ (For the whole passage comp. Isaiah 53:7.)...
_[Psalms 38:15]_ וָ אֱהִ֗י כְּ֭ אִישׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר...
Psalms 38:1 THIS is a long-drawn wail. passionate at first, but gradually calming itself into submission and trust, though never passing from the minor key. The name of God is invoked thrice (Psalms 3...
THE CRY OF THE NEEDY PENITENT Psalms 38:1 A long drawn-out sigh of pain. Some think it should be classed with Psalms 32:1; Psalms 51:1, as belonging to the time of David's fall and repentance. It is...
This is the third of what are known as the penitential psalms. The circumstances of the singer were most distressing. He was suffering from some terrible physical malady, deserted by his friends, and...
_More. In a state to do good. (Worthington) --- Grant me relief, Ecclesiastes ix. 10., and Job vii. 8. (Calmet)_...
Who that ever read the prophet's account of Him, that as a sheep before her shearers was dumb, so he opened not his mouth; or who that ever read the relation of Jesus standing before Pilate, when, ami...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 38 AND 39. Psalms 38 and 39 have, as I have said, a distinct and peculiar character. The deliverance has been sought and looked for by the upright, and forgivene...
THUS I WAS AS A MAN THAT HEARETH NOT,.... Any thing that is said unto him; he took no more notice of it than if he had never heard it; but bore all the railings and calumnies of men with calmness and...
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs. Ver. 14. _Thus I was as a man that heareth not_] He doubleth his speech, to show his holy pertinace in a prudent and patien...
_In whose mouth are no reproofs_ Or arguments, to convince or confute them, or to defend myself. _For in thee do I hope_ I bore their behaviour silently and patiently, because I hoped that thou woulde...
PRAYER FOR RELIEF FROM A BURDEN OF GUILT. A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance, to remind God of His great mercy toward poor sinners, the hymn probably being intended for that part of worship wh...
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs, who does not venture to adduce any counterevidence to justify himself. In this way a believer opens his heart and makes his co...
12-22 Wicked men hate goodness, even when they benefit by it. David, in the complaints he makes of his enemies, seems to refer to Christ. But our enemies do us real mischief only when they drive us f...
Or _arguments_, to convince or confute them, or to defend myself....
Psalms 38:14 man H376 hear H8085 (H8802) mouth H6310 response H8433 that heareth - Amos 5:13;...
‘But I, as a deaf man, hear not, And I am as a dumb man who opens not his mouth. Yes, I am as a man who hears not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs. For in you, O YHWH, do I hope, You will answ...
2). HE LOOKS TO HIS SOVEREIGN LORD AMIDST EVEN THE DESERTION OF HIS FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES (PSALMS 38:9). Up to this point the Psalmist's emphasis has been on his own personal state. It is his state o...
I am going to read two portions of Scripture. In the first, the 38 th Psalm, we shall hear a suffering servant of Jehovah crying out to his God. Psalms 38:1. _O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neit...
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. Remember, although this is a very sorrowful Psalm, it was written by a man of God. It will show you what a terrible thing sin must be, for even a child of Go...
CONTENTS: David's grief, complaints and confession. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God often contends with His children to awaken their consciences and to set their sins in order before them fo...
In Psalms 38:19, David intimates that he was hated wrongfully, because he followed good. This psalm was composed under some new outbreaking of Saul's persecution, when his mind sunk under depression,...
_O Lord, rebuke me not in Thy wrath: neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure._ GREAT PERSONAL AFFLICTION I. Elements of aggravation. 1. A dread of Divine displeasure (Psalms 38:1). 2. A crushing...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 38:1. In this lament the singer lays his troubles before God, fully realizing that those troubles result from his own sin. The psalm describes anguish of body and mind, dese...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 38:9 The singer’s FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS STAND ALOOF (v. Psalms 38:11), thus adding loneliness to helplessness (vv....
INTRODUCTION This is a psalm of David to call to remembrance his past life, and, no doubt, has especial reference to his sin with Bathsheba. It calls up to the view of his memory the sins of the past,...
EXPOSITION THIS is the third of the penitential psalms, and is appropriately recited by the Church on Ash Wednesday. Of all the penitential psalms it is the one which shows the deepest marks of utter...
Psa 38:1-22. This is read on Yom Kippur. Now David, through some sin, and he doesn't tell us what, became very sick. And this psalm is occasion by this great sickness that David had because of some si...
Amos 5:13; John 8:6; Micah 7:5; Mark 15:3...