Psaumes 109:24

Darby's French Translation

Mes genoux chancellent par le jeûne, et ma chair s'est amaigrie et n'a plus sa graisse.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Mes genoux chancellent par le je�ne; ma chair a perdu son embonpoint.

Louis Segond (1910)
Mes genoux sont affaiblis par le je�ne, Et mon corps est �puis� de maigreur.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Mes genoux sont affaiblis par le je�ne, et ma chair s'est amaigrie, au lieu qu'elle �tait en bon point.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

knees: Psalms 22:14, Psalms 35:13, Psalms 35:14, Psalms 69:10, Matthew 4:2, 2 Corinthians 11:27, Hebrews 12:12

my flesh: Psalms 32:3, Psalms 32:4, Psalms 38:5-8, Psalms 102:4, Psalms 102:5, Job 19:20

Reciprocal: Matthew 6:16 - when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My knees are weak through fasting,..... Either voluntary or forced, through want of food or refreshment; this was verified in Christ, when he kneeled and prayed, and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground; see Psalms 69:10.

And my flesh faileth of fatness; or "for want of oil" k; the radical moisture of his flesh being dried up like a potsherd, Psalms 22:15.

k משמן δι' ελαιον, Sept. "propter oleum", V. L. "propter defectum olei", Eth. Arab.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My knees are weak through fasting - Hunger; want of food. Strength to stand is connected with firmness in the knee-joints, and hence, weakness and feebleness are denoted by the giving way of the knees. Compare Hebrews 12:12.

And my flesh faileth of fatness - I am lean and weak. There is not the proper supply for my strength. The idea seems to have been that fatness (Hebrew, oil) was necessary to strength.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 109:24. My knees are weak through fasting — That hunger is as soon felt in weakening the knees, as in producing an uneasy sensation in the stomach, is known by all who have ever felt it. Writers in all countries have referred to this effect of hunger. Thus Tryphioderus Il. Excid. ver 155: -

Τειρομενου βαρυθειεν ατερπεΐ γουνατα λιμῳ.

"Their knees might fail, by hunger's force subdued;

And sink, unable to sustain their load."

MERRICK.

SO PLAUTUS, Curcul, act. ii., scen. 3: -

Tenebrae oboriuntur, genua inedia succidunt.

"My eyes grow dim; my knees are weak with hunger."

And LUCRETIUS, lib. iv. ver. 950: -

Brachia, palpebraeque cadunt, poplitesque procumbunt.

"The arms, the eyelids fall; the knees give way." Both the knees and the sight are particularly affected by hunger.