Mazmur 35:14

35:14 I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. ¹ 

I bowed down ²  in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother. ³ 

Mazmur 38:3

38:3 My whole body is sick because of your judgment; ⁴ 

I am deprived of health because of my sin. ⁵ 

Mazmur 41:6

41:6 When someone comes to visit, ⁶  he pretends to be friendly; ⁷ 

he thinks of ways to defame me, ⁸ 

and when he leaves he slanders me. ⁹ 

[35:14]  ¹ tn Heb “like a friend, like a brother to me I walked about.”

[35:14]  ² sn I bowed down. Bowing down was a posture for mourning. See Ps 38:6.

[35:14]  ³ tn Heb “like mourning for a mother [in] sorrow I bowed down.”

[38:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “there is no soundness in my flesh from before your anger.” “Anger” here refers metonymically to divine judgment, which is the practical effect of God’s anger at the psalmist’s sin.

[38:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “there is no health in my bones from before my sin.”

[41:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “to see.”

[41:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “he speaks deceitfully.”

[41:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “his heart gathers sin to itself.”

[41:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “he goes outside and speaks.”