Psalm 42:10

10 While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is thy God?

Psalm 42:10 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 42:10

[As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me
The reproaches of his enemies were grievous and cutting to him, as if a sword pierced through the marrow in his bones, which, being very sensitive, gives exquisite pain. There is a various reading here: some copies, as Vatablus observes, read (b) , "in", or with, and others (k) , "as", which seems to be the truest; and our translators supply "as", to make the sense, though they read "with"; but some ^F14 only read "as"; and the sense is, the reproaches cast upon the psalmist were as a sword cutting and killing; and these reproaches were as follow;

while they say daily unto me, where [is] thy God?
(See Gill on Psalms 42:3).

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (xurk) (wv sfaghn) , Symmachus in Drusius; "ut occisio", Pagninus, Amama; so Aben Ezra interprets it.

Psalm 42:10 In-Context

8 By day the Lord will command his mercy, and manifest it by night: with me is prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God, Thou art my helper; why hast thou forgotten me? wherefore do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?

10 While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is thy God?

11 Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the health of my countenance, and my God.