Psalm 32:3

3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalm 32:3 in Other Translations

3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

3 When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long.

3 When I kept it all inside, my bones turned to powder, my words became daylong groans.

3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

3 When I kept silent [about my sins], my bones began to weaken because of my groaning all day long.

3 When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

3 When I kept silent about my sin, my body became weak because I groaned all day long.

Psalm 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 ) .

Psalm 32:3 In-Context

1 Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

2 Blessed is the one whose sin the LORD does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.

3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.

5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD.” And you forgave the guilt of my sin.

Cross References

• 1. S Job 31:34
• 2. Psalms 31:10
• 3. S Job 3:24; Psalms 6:6