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New King James Version

Psalms 88:4

I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has 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

Christian Standard Bible®
I am counted among those going down to the Pit.I am like a man without strength,
Hebrew Names Version
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
King James Version
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
English Standard Version
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,
New Century Version
They think I am on the way to my grave. I am like a man with no strength.
New English Translation
They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,
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],
New American Standard Bible
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,
World English Bible
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
Geneva Bible (1587)
I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:
Legacy Standard Bible
I am counted among those who go down to the pit;I am like a man without strength,
Berean Standard Bible
I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
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.
Darby Translation
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
Easy-to-Read Version
People already treat me like a dead man, like someone too weak to live.
George Lamsa Translation
I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am like a man who has no strength;
Good News Translation
I am like all others who are about to die; all my strength is gone.
Lexham English Bible
I am reckoned with those descending to the pit. I am like a man without strength,
Literal Translation
I am counted with those who go down to the Pit; I have been like a feeble man,
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.
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:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
King James Version (1611)
I am counted with them that go downe into the pit: I am as a man that hath no 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.
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:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I am gessid with hem that goon doun in to the lake; Y am maad as a man with outen 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 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.
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,
Revised Standard Version
I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit; I am a man who has no strength,
Young's Literal Translation
I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, I have been as 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,

Contextual Overview

1 A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to 'Mahalath Leannoth.' A Contemplation [fn] of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, God of my salvation,I have cried out day and night before You. 2 Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry. 3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near to the grave. 4 I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has no strength, 5 Adrift among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And who are cut off from Your hand. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, In darkness, in the depths. 7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves.Selah 8 You have put away my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut up, and I cannot get out; 9 My eye wastes away because of affliction. LORD, I have called daily upon You; I have stretched out my hands to You.

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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