Psalms 32:3

3 When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.

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 Happy [is] he whose transgression is taken away, whose sin is covered.

2 Happy [is] a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is not deceit.

3 When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.

4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat of summer. Selah

5 I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover. I said, "I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh," and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah