Psalms 32:3

3 When I kept silent [about my sins], my bones began to weaken because of my groaning all day long.

Psalms 32:3 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 32:3

When I kept silence
Was unthoughtful of sin, unconcerned about it, and made no acknowledgment and confession of it to God, being quite senseless and stupid; the Targum adds, "from the words of the law"; which seems to point at sin as the cause of what follows;

my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long;
not under a sense of sin, but under some severe affliction, and through impatience in it; not considering that sin lay at the bottom, and was the occasion of it; and such was the violence of the disorder, and his uneasiness under it, that his strength was dried up by it, and his bones stuck out as they do in aged persons, whose flesh is wasted away from them; see ( Psalms 102:3 Psalms 102:5 ) .

Psalms 32:3 In-Context

1 Blessed is the person whose disobedience is forgiven and whose sin is pardoned.

2 Blessed is the person whom the LORD no longer accuses of sin and who has no deceitful thoughts.

3 When I kept silent [about my sins], my bones began to weaken because of my groaning all day long.

4 Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength shriveled in the summer heat. Selah

5 I made my sins known to you, and I did not cover up my guilt. I decided to confess them to you, O LORD. Then you forgave all my sins. Selah