Psaume 39:10

10 Détourne de moi tes coups! Je succombe sous les attaques de ta main.

Psaume 39:10 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 39:10

Remove thy stroke away from me
The psalmist still considers his affliction as coming from the hand of God, as his stroke upon him, and which lay as a heavy burden on him, and which God only could remove; and to him he applies for the removal of it, who is to be sought unto by his people to do such things for them; nor is such an application any ways contrary to that silence and patience before expressed;

I am consumed by the blow of thine hand;
meaning either that his flesh was consumed by his affliction, which came from the hand of God, or he should be consumed if he did not remove it: he could not bear up under it, but must sink and die; if he continued to strive and contend with him, his spirit would fail before him, and the soul that he had made; and therefore he entreats he would remember he was but dust, and remove his hand from him; for this is a reason enforcing the preceding petition.

Psaume 39:10 In-Context

8 Délivre-moi de toutes mes transgressions! Ne me rends pas l'opprobre de l'insensé!

9 Je reste muet, je n'ouvre pas la bouche, Car c'est toi qui agis.

10 Détourne de moi tes coups! Je succombe sous les attaques de ta main.

11 Tu châties l'homme en le punissant de son iniquité, Tu détruis comme la teigne ce qu'il a de plus cher. Oui, tout homme est un souffle. -Pause.

12 Ecoute ma prière, Eternel, et prête l'oreille à mes cris! Ne sois pas insensible à mes larmes! Car je suis un étranger chez toi, Un habitant, comme tous mes pères.