Psalm 102:5

5 My jaws ache from gritting my teeth; I'm nothing but skin and bones.

Psalm 102:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 102:5

By reason of the voice of my groaning
Under the burden of sin, and pressure of afflictions:

my bones cleave to my skin;
was quite emaciated, reduced to a skeleton, became nothing but skin and bone ^F5; which sometimes is occasioned, as by outward afflictions, so by soul troubles: or "to my flesh" ^F6; flesh is put for skin; see ( Job 19:20 ) ( 4:8 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 "Ossa atque pellis sum", Plauti Capteivei, Act. 1. Sc. 2. v. 26. Asinaria 3. 6. v. 28.
F6 (yrvbl) "carni meae", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus

Psalm 102:5 In-Context

3 I'm wasting away to nothing, I'm burning up with fever.

4 I'm a ghost of my former self, half-consumed already by terminal illness.

5 My jaws ache from gritting my teeth; I'm nothing but skin and bones.

6 I'm like a buzzard in the desert, a crow perched on the rubble.

7 Insomniac, I twitter away, mournful as a sparrow in the gutter.