Text -- Psalms 38:5 (NET)

38:5 My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 38:5

¹ sn The reference to wounds may be an extension of the metaphorical language of v. 2. The psalmist pictures himself as one whose flesh is ripped and torn by arrows.

² tn Heb “my wounds stink, they are festering” (cf. NEB).

³ tn Heb “from before my foolishness.”