Psalms 38:7
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
American King James Version (AKJV)
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
American Standard Version (ASV)
For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.
Webster's Revision
For my loins are filled with a lothsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
World English Bible
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
English Revised Version (ERV)
For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Definitions for Psalms 38:7
Clarke's Psalms 38:7 Bible Commentary
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease - Or rather, a burning; נקלה nikleh, from קלה kalah, to fry, scorch, etc., hence נקלה nikleh, a burning, or strongly feverish disease.
There is no soundness in my flesh - All without and all within bears evidence that the whole of my solids and fluids are corrupt.
Barnes's Psalms 38:7 Bible Commentary
For my bones are filled with a loathsome disease - This would seem to indicate the seat of the disease, though not its nature. The word used here, according to Gesenius (Lexicon), properly denotes the internal muscles of the loins near the kidneys, to which the fat adheres. The word rendered "loathsome" - the word "disease" being supplied by our translators - is derived from קלה qâlâh, a word which means to roast, to parch, as fruit, grain, etc.; and then, in the form used here, it means scorched, burned; hence, a burning or inflammation; and the whole phrase would be synonymous with "an inflammation of the kidneys." The word used here does not imply that there was any eruption, or ulcer, though it would seem from Psalm 38:5 that this was the fact, and that the inflammation had produced this effect.
And there is no soundness in my flesh - See Psalm 38:3. His disease was so deep-seated and so pervading, that there did not seem to be "any" soundness in his flesh. His whole body seemed to be diseased.
Wesley's Psalms 38:7 Bible Commentary
38:7 Disease - The disease might be some burning fever, breaking forth outwardly in carbuncles, or boils. It is true, this and the other expressions may be taken figuratively, but we should not forsake the literal sense of the words without necessity.