Psalms 38:18

18 I'm ready to tell my story of failure, I'm no longer smug in my sin.

Psalms 38:18 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 38:18

For I will declare mine iniquity
Either to men, to ease his mind, justify God in his proceedings with him, and for their caution and admonition: or rather to God, against whom he had sinned, and who only could pardon him; with a view to which he was determined to make a free and open confession of it before him:

I will be sorry for my sin,
or "careful" ^F16 about it; that is, how he committed it for the future: true repentance for sin produces a carefulness to abstain from all appearance of it; see ( 2 Corinthians 7:10 2 Corinthians 7:11 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (gada) "solicitus ero", Montanus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis, Ainsworth.

Psalms 38:18 In-Context

16 I wait and pray so they won't laugh me off, won't smugly strut off when I stumble.

17 I'm on the edge of losing it - the pain in my gut keeps burning.

18 I'm ready to tell my story of failure, I'm no longer smug in my sin.

19 My enemies are alive and in action, a lynch mob after my neck.

20 I give out good and get back evil from God-haters who can't stand a God-lover.