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King James Version

Psalms 88:4

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Thompson Chain Reference - Pit, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Sheol;   Soul;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Pit;   Sheol;   Spirituality;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hell;   Sheol;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezrahite;   Heman;   Korah, Korahites;   Prayer;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Pit;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mahalath;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Korah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
I am counted among those who go down to the pit;I am like a man without strength,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit: and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength.
Darby Translation
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
New King James Version
I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has no strength,
Literal Translation
I am counted with those who go down to the Pit; I have been like a feeble man,
Easy-to-Read Version
People already treat me like a dead man, like someone too weak to live.
World English Bible
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
King James Version (1611)
I am counted with them that go downe into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fre amoge the deed, like vnto the yt lye in the graue, which be out of remembrauce, and are cutt awaye from thy honde.
Amplified Bible
I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave); I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],
American Standard Version
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
Bible in Basic English
I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
Update Bible Version
I am reckoned with those that go down into the pit; I am as an [able-bodied] man without strength,
Webster's Bible Translation
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
New English Translation
They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,
Contemporary English Version
I am as good as dead and completely helpless.
Complete Jewish Bible
For I am oversupplied with troubles, which have brought me to the brink of Sh'ol.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:
George Lamsa Translation
I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am like a man who has no strength;
Hebrew Names Version
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
New Living Translation
I am as good as dead, like a strong man with no strength left.
New Life Bible
I am added among those who go down into the deep hole. I am like a man without strength.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;
English Revised Version
I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help:
Berean Standard Bible
I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
New Revised Standard
I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; I am like those who have no help,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I am counted with them who descend into the pit, I have become as a man that is without help;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(87-5) I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,
Lexham English Bible
I am reckoned with those descending to the pit. I am like a man without strength,
English Standard Version
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,
New American Standard Bible
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,
New Century Version
They think I am on the way to my grave. I am like a man with no strength.
Good News Translation
I am like all others who are about to die; all my strength is gone.
Christian Standard Bible®
I am counted among those going down to the Pit. I am like a man without strength,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I am gessid with hem that goon doun in to the lake; Y am maad as a man with outen help,
Young's Literal Translation
I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, I have been as a man without strength.
Revised Standard Version
I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit; I am a man who has no strength,

Contextual Overview

1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. 9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord , I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

counted: Psalms 28:1, Psalms 30:9, Psalms 143:7, Job 17:1, Isaiah 38:17, Isaiah 38:18, Ezekiel 26:20, Jonah 2:6, 2 Corinthians 1:9

as a man: Psalms 31:12, Psalms 109:22-24, Romans 5:6, 2 Corinthians 13:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:29 - And if Numbers 12:12 - as one dead Job 17:16 - the bars of the pit Psalms 69:15 - pit Psalms 142:7 - my soul Psalms 143:3 - made me Ezekiel 28:8 - shall bring Luke 10:30 - wounded

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I am counted with them that go down into the pit,.... With the dead, with them that are worthy of death, with malefactors that are judicially put to death, and are not laid in a common grave, but put into a pit together: thus Christ was reckoned and accounted of by the Jews; the sanhedrim counted him worthy of death; and the common people cried out Crucify him; and they did crucify him between two malefactors; and so he was numbered or counted with transgressors, and as one of them, Isaiah 53:3.

I am as a man that hath no strength; for his "strength" was "dried up like a potsherd", Psalms 22:15, though he was the mighty God, and, as man, was made strong by the Lord for himself.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am counted with them that go down into the pit - I am so near to death that I may be reckoned already as among the dead. It is so manifest to others that I must die - that my disease is mortal - that they already speak of me as dead. The word “pit” here means the grave - the same as Sheol in the previous verse. It means properly

(1) a pit,

(2) a cistern, Genesis 37:20,

(3) a prison or dungeon, Isaiah 24:22,

(4) the grave, Psalms 28:1; Psalms 30:4; Isaiah 38:18.

I am as a man that hath no strength - Who has no power to resist disease, no vigor of constitution remaining; who must die.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 88:4. I am counted with them, c. — I am as good as dead nearly destitute of life and hope.


 
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