Psalms 32:3

3 When I kept quiet, my bones wore out; I was groaning all day long— every day, every night!—

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 The one whose wrongdoing is forgiven, whose sin is covered over, is truly happy!

2 The one the LORD doesn't consider guilty— in whose spirit there is no dishonesty— that one is truly happy!

3 When I kept quiet, my bones wore out; I was groaning all day long— every day, every night!—

4 because your hand was heavy upon me. My energy was sapped as if in a summer drought. Selah

5 So I admitted my sin to you; I didn't conceal my guilt. "I'll confess my sins to the LORD, " is what I said. Then you removed the guilt of my sin. Selah