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Psalms 31:12

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dead, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joseph;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Heart;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Broken;   Vessel;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mind;   Potter;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I am ignored as if I were dead, as if I were a broken pot.
English Revised Version
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Update Bible Version
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
New Century Version
I am like a piece of a broken pot. I am forgotten as if I were dead.
New English Translation
I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.
Webster's Bible Translation
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
World English Bible
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
English Standard Version
I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
as a deed man fro herte. I am maad as a lorun vessel;
Berean Standard Bible
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
Contemporary English Version
I am completely forgotten like someone dead. I am merely a broken dish.
American Standard Version
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Bible in Basic English
I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
Complete Jewish Bible
I am scorned by all my adversaries, and even more by my neighbors; even to acquaintances I am an object of fear — when they see me in the street, they turn away from me.
Darby Translation
I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
Easy-to-Read Version
People want to forget me like someone already dead, thrown away like a broken dish.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, yea, unto my neighbours exceedingly, and a dread to mine acquaintance;
King James Version (1611)
I am forgotten as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.
New Life Bible
I am forgotten like a dead man and they do not think about me. I am like a broken pot.
New Revised Standard
I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I am forgotten, as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.
George Lamsa Translation
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like something given up for lost.
Good News Translation
Everyone has forgotten me, as though I were dead; I am like something thrown away.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I have been forgotten, like one dead - out of mind, I have been as a missing vessel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(30-13) I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.
Revised Standard Version
I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I became cleane forgotten as a dead man out of minde: I became like a broken vessell.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.
Christian Standard Bible®
I am forgotten: gone from memorylike a dead person—like broken pottery.
Hebrew Names Version
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
King James Version
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Lexham English Bible
I have become forgotten like one dead, out of mind. I am like a destroyed vessel.
Literal Translation
I am forgotten like one dead from the heart; I am like a perishing vessel.
Young's Literal Translation
I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My stregth fayleth me because of my aduersite, and my bones are corrupte.
New American Standard Bible
I am forgotten like a dead person, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
New King James Version
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I am forgotten as a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
Legacy Standard Bible
I am forgotten like a dead man—out of mind—I am like a broken vessel.

Contextual Overview

9Be gracious and compassionate to me, O LORD, for I am in trouble; My eye is clouded and weakened by grief, my soul and my body also. 10For my life is spent with sorrow And my years with sighing; My strength has failed because of my iniquity, And even my body has wasted away. 11Because of all my enemies I have become a reproach and disgrace, Especially to my neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me on the street run from me. 12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.13For I have heard the slander and whispering of many, Terror is on every side; While they schemed together against me, They plotted to take away my life. 14But as for me, I trust [confidently] in You and Your greatness, O LORD; I said, "You are my God." 15My times are in Your hands; Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue and persecute me. 16Make Your face shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your lovingkindness. 17Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call on You; Let the wicked (godless) be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). 18Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous With pride and contempt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

forgotten: Psalms 88:4, Psalms 88:5, Isaiah 38:11, Isaiah 38:12

a broken vessel: Heb. a vessel that perisheth, Psalms 2:9, Psalms 119:83, Isaiah 30:14, Romans 9:21, Romans 9:22, Revelation 2:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:23 - but forgat him Psalms 88:12 - in the land Psalms 143:3 - made me Ecclesiastes 8:10 - they were Jeremiah 22:28 - a despised

Cross-References

Genesis 31:37
"Although you have searched through all my possessions, what have you found of your household goods? Put it here before my relatives and your relatives, so that they may decide [who has done right] between the two of us.
Genesis 31:42
"If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and [the Feared One] of Isaac, had not been with me, most certainly you would have sent me away now empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and humiliation and the [exhausting] labor of my hands, so He rendered judgment and rebuked you last night."
Genesis 31:43
Laban answered Jacob, "These women [that you married] are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, these flocks are [from] my flocks, and all that you see [here] is mine. But what can I do today to these my daughters or to their children to whom they have given birth?
Exodus 3:7
The LORD said, "I have in fact seen the affliction (suffering, desolation) of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters (oppressors); for I know their pain and suffering.
Exodus 3:9
"Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me; and I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them.
Leviticus 19:13
'You shall not oppress or exploit your neighbor, nor rob him. You shall not withhold the wages of a hired man overnight until morning.
Deuteronomy 24:15
"You shall give him his wages on the day that he earns them before the sun sets—for he is poor and is counting on it—so that he does not cry out to the LORD against you, and it becomes a sin for you.
Psalms 12:5
"Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, Now I will arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."
Psalms 139:3
You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight [of corruption]; for a higher official watches over another official, and there are higher ones over them [looking out for one another].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind,.... Either by his friends, being out of sight, out of mind; as even the nearest relations and acquaintance are, in process of time, when dead, Ecclesiastes 9:5; or by the Lord; which shows the weakness of his faith, the uncomfortable frame he was in, through darkness and desertion; see Psalms 88:5;

I am like a broken vessel; or a "perishing vessel" c; or "a vessel of perdition" d: the Septuagint version renders it "a lost vessel" e; one entirely useless, wholly lost, and irrecoverably so; like a broken vessel, which can never be put together again, Isaiah 30:14; a most sad apprehension he had of himself, as if his case was desperate, and he a vessel of wrath; compare with this, Romans 9:22.

c ככלי אבד "sicut vas periens", Montanus, Cocceius, Gejerus. d So Ainsworth. e V. L. Pagninus, Musculus, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind - Like the man who is dead, and who has passed away from the recollection of mankind. Compare Psalms 88:4-5. The Hebrew is, “as a dead man from the heart;” that is, from the memory or recollection of men, so as to be no more remembered; no more regarded. The expression is nearly the same in meaning as our common English proverb: “out of sight, out of mind.” The allusion is to the fact that a man who is dead is soon forgotten. He is missed at first by a few friends, while the rest of the world knows little about him, or cares little for him. He is no longer seen where he has been accustomed to be seen, at the place of business, in the social circle, in the scenes of amusement, in the streets, or in public assemblies. For a short period a vacancy is created which attracts attention and causes regret. But the world moves on. Another comes to fill his place, and soon his absence ceases to be a subject of remark, or a cause of regret; the world says little about him, and soon he altogether ceases to be remembered. At no distant time the rude board with his name written on it, or the marble sculptured with all the skill of art, falls down. The passing traveler casts an eye upon the “name” of him who slept his last sleep there, and neither knows nor cares who he was.

“The gay will laugh

When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care

Plod on, and each one as before will chase

His favorite phantom”

- Bryant

“On my grassy grave

The men of future times will careless tread,

And read my name upon the sculptured stone;

Nor will the sound, familiar to their ears,

Recall my vanish’d memory.”

- Henry Kirke White

It is sad to reflect that this is to be our lot; but so it is. It would cast a most gloomy shade over life if this was to be the end of man, and if he passed from existence as soon as he passes from the recollection of the living. The idea of the psalmist here is, that, in the circumstances to which he referred, he had been forgotten by mankind, and he uses the most striking image which could be employed to convey that idea.

I am like a broken vessel - Margin, as in Hebrew, “like a vessel that perisheth.” That is, like a vessel made of clay - a piece of pottery - that is easily broken and rendered worthless. This is a favorite comparison with Jeremiah. See Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 48:38; Lamentations 4:2. Compare also Psalms 2:9; Isaiah 30:14; Hosea 8:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 31:12. I am forgotten as a dead man — I am considered as a person adjudged to death. I am like a broken vessel - like a thing totally useless.


 
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