Psalms 39:10

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁷And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You. ⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools. ⁹I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because it is You who have done this. ¹⁰Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.¹¹You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah ¹²Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a sojourner like all my fathers. ¹³Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more."

Bible Verse Review
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Remove: Psalms 25:16, Psalms 25:17, 1 Samuel 6:5, Job 9:34, Job 13:21

I am consumed: Psalms 38:3, Psalms 38:4

blow: Heb. conflict, Job 40:8

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:13 - the hand Job 2:5 - put forth Job 7:16 - let me alone Job 36:18 - his Psalms 32:4 - hand Psalms 38:2 - thy hand Isaiah 38:13 - as a lion Isaiah 38:15 - What Jeremiah 14:17 - with a very Acts 13:11 - hand

Cross-References

Genesis 39:8
But he refused. "Look," he said to his master's wife, "with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

Proverbs 1:15
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Proverbs 2:16
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words,

Proverbs 5:3
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 5:8
Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 7:5
that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

Proverbs 7:13
She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

Proverbs 9:14
She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,

Proverbs 9:16
"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks judgment she says:

Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is cursed by the LORD will fall into it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remove thy stroke away from me,.... The psalmist still considers his affliction as coming from the hand of God, as his stroke upon him, and which lay as a heavy burden on him, and which God only could remove; and to him he applies for the removal of it, who is to be sought unto by his people to do such things for them; nor is such an application any ways contrary to that silence and patience before expressed;

I am consumed by the blow of thine hand; meaning either that his flesh was consumed by his affliction, which came from the hand of God, or he should be consumed if he did not remove it: he could not bear up under it, but must sink and die; if he continued to strive and contend with him, his spirit would fail before him, and the soul that he had made; and therefore he entreats he would remember he was but dust, and remove his hand from him; for this is a reason enforcing the preceding petition.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remove thy stroke away from me - And yet this calm submission, as expressed in Psalms 39:9, does not take away the desire that the hand of God may be removed, and that the suffering that is brought upon us may cease. Perfect submission is not inconsistent with the prayer that, if it be the will of God, the calamity may be removed: Luke 22:42. On the word here rendered “stroke” - נגע nega‛ - see the notes at Psalms 38:11. It is equivalent here to chastisement, or judgment. It refers to the trial which he was then enduring, whatever it was, which had given occasion to the feelings that he says Psalms 39:1-2 he had felt bound to suppress when in the presence of the wicked, but in reference to which he had learned entirely to acquiesce Psalms 39:9. From that trial itself he now prays that he may be delivered.

I am consumed - I am wasting away. I cannot long bear up under it. I must sink down to the grave if it is not removed. See Psalms 39:13.

By the blow of thine hand - Margin, as in Hebrew: “conflict.” That is, the blow which God brings on anyone when he has, as it were, a “strife” or a “conflict” with him. It is designed here to express his affliction, as if God had “struck” him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 39:10. Remove thy stroke away from me — This seems to be a figure taken from gladiators, or persons contending in single combat. One is wounded so as to be able to maintain the fight no longer: he therefore gives in, and prays his adversary to spare his life. I am conquered; I can hold the contest no longer: thou art too powerful for me. He cries what our ancestors used to term craven; the word spoken by him who was conquered in the battle ordeal, or trial by combat.