Proverbia 39:3

Nova Vulgata

[39:4] Concaluit cor meum intra me, et in meditatione mea exarsit ignis.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Incurvantur ad fœtum, et pariunt, et rugitus emittunt.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et exaudivit preces meas,
et eduxit me de lacu miseriæ et de luto fæcis.
Et statuit super petram pedes meos,
et direxit gressus meos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 20:9, Ezekiel 3:14, Luke 24:32

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:26 - yearned Job 3:1 - opened Job 7:11 - I will not Job 20:2 - my thoughts Job 32:18 - the spirit Job 40:9 - canst

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My heart was hot within me,.... Either with zeal for God; or rather with envy at the prosperity of wicked men, and with impatience at his own afflictions;

while I was musing the fire burned; not the fire of the divine word, while he was meditating upon it, which caused his heart to burn within him; nor the fire of divine love, the coals whereof give a most vehement flame, when the love of God is shed abroad in the heart, and the thoughts of it are directed by the Spirit of God to dwell in meditation on it; but the fire of passion, anger, and resentment, while meditating on his own adversity, and the prosperity of others;

[then] spake I with my tongue; and so broke the resolution he had made,

Psalms 39:1; he spoke not for God, though to him; not by way of thankfulness for his grace and goodness to him, in supporting him under his exercises; but in a way of complaint, because of his afflictions; it was in prayer he spoke to God with his tongue, and it was unadvisedly with his lips, as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My heart was hot within me - My mind became more and more excited; my feelings more and more intense. The attempt to suppress my emotions only more and more enkindled them.

While I was musing the fire burned - literally, “in my meditation the fire burned.” That is, while I was dwelling on the subject; while I was agitating it in my mind; while I thought about it - the flame was enkindled, and my thoughts found utterance. He was unable longer to suppress his feelings, and he gave vent to them in words. Compare Jeremiah 20:9; Job 32:18-19.

Then spake I with my tongue - That is, in the words which are recorded in this psalm. He gave vent to his pent-up feelings in the language which follows. Even though there was a feeling of murmuring and complaining, he sought relief in stating his real difficulties before God, and in seeking from him direction and support.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 39:3. My heart was hot within me — A natural feeling of repressed grief.

While I was musing — What was at first a simple sensation of heat produced a flame; the fire broke out that had long been smothered. It is a metaphor taken from vegetables, which, being heaped together, begin to heat and ferment, if not scattered and exposed to the air; and will soon produce a flame, and consume themselves and every thing within their reach.