Psalms 88:3

“For my soul is full of troubles, etc.] Or “satiated or glutted” f1242 with them, as a stomach full of meat that can receive no more, to which the allusion is; having been fed with the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, so that he had his fill of trouble: every man is full of trouble, of one kind or another, (<181401>Job 14:1) especially the saint, who besides his outward troubles has inward ones, arising from indwelling sin, the temptations of Satan, and divine desertions, which was now the case of the psalmist: this may be truly applied to Christ, who himself said, when in the garden, “my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death”, (<402638>Matthew 26:38), he was a man of…”

“For my soul is full of troubles - I am full of trouble. The word rendered as “full” means properly to satiate as with food; that is, when as much had been taken as could be. So he says here, that this trouble was as great as he could bear; he could sustain no more. He had reached the utmost point of endurance; he had no power to bear anymore. And my life draweth nigh unto the grave - Hebrew, to Sheol. Compare the notes at Isaiah 14:9; notes at Job 10:21-22. It may mean here either the grave, or the abode of the dead. He was about to die. Unless he found relief he must go down to the abodes of the dead. The Hebrew word rendered life is in the plural number, as in Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:14,…”

“soul: Psa 88:14, Psa 88:15, Psa 22:11-21, Psa 69:17-21, Psa 77:2, Psa 143:3, Psa 143:4; Job 6:2-4; Isa 53:3, Isa 53:10, Isa 53:11; Lam 3:15-19; Mat 26:37-39; Mar 14:33, Mar 14:34 life: Psa 107:18; Job 33:22 Psalms 88:4”