Psalms 38:6

I am troubled -Margin, “wearied.” The Hebrew word means to bend, to curve; then, to be distorted, to writhe with pain, convulsions, and spasms. InIsaiah 21:3, the same word is rendered, “I was bowed down at the hearing of it;” that is, Sorrow so took hold of him, that at the intelligence he writhed with pain as a woman in travail. So here it means that he was bent, or bowed down, or that he writhed in pain as the result of his iniquities. I am bowed down greatly -ComparePsalms 35:14. The word means properly to bow down; then, to be brought low; to be depressed with pain, grief, sorrow:Psalms 10:10;Isaiah 2:11. I go mourning all the day long -Constantly; without any intermission.