Psalms 31:10
“For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.”
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.”
“I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.”
“When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.”
“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.”
“Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.”