Psalms 31:10

“The days of our years are threescore years and ten, etc.] In the Hebrew text it is, “the days of our years in them are”, etc. f1305; which refers either to the days in which we live, or to the persons of the Israelites in the wilderness, who were instances of this term of life, in whom perhaps it first took place in a general way: before the flood, men lived to a great age; some nine hundred years and upwards; after the flood, men lived not so long; the term fixed then, as some think, was an hundred and twenty years, grounding it on the passage in (<010603>Genesis 6:3), but now, in the time of Moses, it was brought to threescore years and ten, or eighty at most: of those that were numbered…”

“Though the effects ascribed to grief are not mere figures of speech-- spent . . . consumed--must be taken in the modified sense of wasted and decayed. iniquity--or, suffering by it (see on Psa 40:12).”

“For my life is spent with grief - The word here rendered “spent” does not mean merely “passed,” as it is commonly now used, as when we say we “spent” our time at such a place, or in such a manner, but in the more proper meaning of the word, as denoting “consumed, wasted away,” or “destroyed.” See the word כלה kâlâh as used in Jeremiah 16:4; Lamentations 2:11; Psalms 84:2 (Hebrews 3:0); Psalms 143:7; Psalms 69:3 Hebrews 4:0; Job 11:20. And my years with sighing - That is, my years are wasted or consumed with sighing. Instead of being devoted to active toil and to useful effort, they are exhausted or wasted away with a grief which wholly occupies and preys upon me. My strength faileth…”

“Iniquity - For the punishment of mine iniquity. Consumed - The juice and marrow of them bring almost dried up with grief. Psalms 31:11”

“31:10 wasting away from within: This is a powerful description of how despair takes a toll on our physical well-being.”

“my life: Psa 78:33, Psa 88:15, 102:3-28; Job 3:24; Rom 9:2 strength: Psa 71:9 bones: Psa 32:3, Psa 32:4, Psa 102:3-5 Psalms 31:11”