Psalms 38:8

“I am feeble, etc.] Both in body, natural strength being weakened by the affliction, and dried up like a potsherd by the heat of the distemper; and in soul, being weak in the exercise of faith and other graces. The word is used of Jacob, fainting at and disbelieving the news of his son Joseph being alive, (<014526>Genesis 45:26); and sore broken; in his constitution with the disease, and in his mind with trouble; especially for his sin, and under a sense of the divine displeasure; his bones were broken by his fall, and his heart broken with a sense of sin, (<195108>Psalm 51:8,17); I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart: which was like the raging of the sea, as the word f541…”

“I am feeble - The word used here means properly to be cold, or without warmth; and then, to be torpid or languid. Compare Genesis 45:26. Would not this be well represented by the idea of a “chill?” And sore broken - This word means to break in pieces; to beat small; to crush; and then it may be used to denote being broken in spirit, or crushed by pain and sorrow: Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 53:5; Isaiah 19:10. I have roared - I have cried out on account of my suffering. See the notes at Psalms 22:1. By reason of the disquietness of my heart - The word here rendered “disquietness” means properly “a roaring,” as of the sea: Isaiah 5:30; and then, a groaning, or roaring, as of the afflicted. Here the…”

“roared: Psa 22:1, Psa 22:2, Psa 32:3; Job 3:24, Job 30:28; Isa 59:11 Psalms 38:9”