Psalms 38:3

“[There is] no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger, etc.] Such was the nature of the affliction the psalmist laboured under, and which he took to be an effect of the anger of God towards him, that the whole frame of nature was affected with it, and from the crown of the head to, the soles of the feet there was no health or soundness, as in (<230106>Isaiah 1:6); where the same word is used as here; some think the word f537 here used has the signification of man; and that the sense is, that through, the violence of the distemper he had not so much, as the form of a man, as his antitype in (<235214>Isaiah 52:14); and as this led him to a view of his sins, as the cause of his…”

“There is no soundness in my flesh - There is no sound place in my flesh; there is no part of my body that is free from disease. The word used here - מתם methôm - occurs only in Judges 20:48, where it is rendered “men;” in Isaiah 1:6, and in this place, where it is rendered “soundness.” See the notes at Isaiah 1:6. It means that the body was wholly diseased; but what was the nature of the disease we are not informed. It would seem, however, that it was some cutaneous disease, or some disease that produced outward and loathsome eruptions that made his friends withdraw from him, Psalms 38:7, Psalms 38:11; compare Psalms 41:8. Because of thine anger - That is, he regarded this as a punishment…”

“Sin - Which hath provoked thee to deal thus severely with me. Psalms 38:4”

“38:3 Sin can lead to sickness and even death (1 Cor 11:30). Whether the psalmist actually felt physically ill or his sickness was a metaphor for emotional turmoil, he knew that it came from God and threatened his life (see Pss 32:3; 39:10).”

“soundness: Psa 31:9; Ch2 26:19; Job 2:7, Job 2:8, Job 33:19-22; Isa 1:5, Isa 1:6 neither: Psa 6:2, Psa 51:8, Psa 102:3, Psa 102:5 rest: Heb. peace, or, health because: Psa 51:8, Psa 90:7, Psa 90:8; Lam 3:40-42 Psalms 38:4”