Mazmur 38:16

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(38-17) Pikirku: "Asal mereka jangan beria-ria karena aku, jangan membesarkan diri terhadap aku apabila kakiku goyah!"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(38-17) Pikirku: "Asal mereka jangan beria-ria karena aku, jangan membesarkan diri terhadap aku apabila kakiku goyah!"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi aku harap pada-Mu, ya Tuhan, bahwa Engkau juga akan mendengar, ya Tuhan, Allahku!

Contextual Overview

¹² They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares [for me]: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long. ¹³ As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and [I was] as one that is dumbe [who] coulde not open his mouth. ¹⁴ I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth. ¹⁵ For on thee O God I haue wayted: thou shalt aunswere for me O Lorde my God. ¹⁶ For I sayde [heare me] lest that they shoulde triumph on me: who auaunce [them selues] greatly agaynst me when my foote doth slyp. ¹⁷ Because I am disposed to a haltyng: and my sorowe is euer in my syght. ¹⁸ Because I confesse my wickednesse: and am sory for my sinne. ¹⁹ But myne enemies lyuyng [without payne] are mightie: & they that hate me wrongfully are increased in number. ²⁰ They also that rewarde euyl for good are agaynst me: because I folowe the thyng that is good. ²¹ Forsake me not O God: O my Lorde be not thou farre fro me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For I said: Psalms 13:3, Psalms 13:4, Psalms 35:24-26

foot: Psalms 94:18, Deuteronomy 32:35

magnify: Psalms 35:26

Reciprocal: Job 19:5 - magnify Psalms 17:5 - that Psalms 27:12 - will Psalms 35:19 - Let Psalms 55:12 - magnify Psalms 73:2 - steps Lamentations 1:21 - they are Lamentations 2:17 - he hath caused Micah 7:8 - Rejoice Zechariah 12:7 - do

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 23:18
Thou shalt neither bryng the hyre of a whore, nor the pryce of a dogge into the house of the Lorde thy God, in any maner of bowe: for eue both of them are abhomination vnto the Lord thy God.

2 Samuel 13:11
And whe she had set them before him to eate, he toke her, and saide vnto her: Come, lye with me my sister.

Ezekiel 16:33
Giftes are geuen to all other whores: but thou geuest rewardes vnto all thy louers, & rewardest them to come vnto thee on euery side for thy fornication.

Matthew 26:15
And sayde [vnto them:] What wyll ye geue me, and I wyll delyuer hym vnto you? And they appoynted vnto hym thirtie peeces of syluer.

1 Timothy 6:10
For loue of money, is the roote of all euyll, whiche whyle some lusted after, they erred from the fayth, & pearced the selues through with many sorowes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I said, [hear me],.... This he had expressed in prayer to God; he had committed his cause to him, and entreated him that he would hear and answer him; giving this as a reason,

lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me; at his misfortunes and calamities, at the continuance of his trouble and distress, both of body and mind;

when my foot slippeth; as it sometimes did through the corruptions of nature, the temptations of Satan, and the snares of the world; which is more or less the case of all the people of God, who are all subject to slips and falls, though they shall not finally and totally fall away;

they magnify [themselves] against me; that is, his enemies exulted and triumphed over him: this was what he found by experience; and therefore makes use of it as an argument with God, that he would hear and answer and deliver him out of his trouble, and preserve him from falling.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I said - This is the prayer to which he referred in the previous verse. He prayed that he might not be permitted to fall away under the influence of his sins and sufferings; that his faith might remain firm; that he might not be allowed to act so as to justify the accusations of his enemies, or to give them occasion to rejoice over his fall. The entire prayer Psalms 38:16-18 is one that is based on the consciousness of his own weakness, and his liability to sin, if left to himself; on the certainty that if God did not interpose, his sins would get the mastery over him, and he would become in his conduct all that his enemies desired, and be in fact all that they had falsely charged on him.

Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me - literally, “For I said, lest they should rejoice over me.” It is the language of earnest desire that they might “not” thus be allowed to rejoice over his fall. The same sentiment occurs substantially in Psalms 13:3-4. The motive is a right one; alike

(a) in reference to ourselves personally - that our foes may not triumph over us by the ruin of our character; and

(b) in reference to its bearing on the cause of virtue and religion - that that cause may not suffer by our misconduct; compare Psalms 69:6.

When my foot slippeth -

(a) When my foot really has slipped, or when I have committed sin (as the psalmist did not deny that he had done, Psalms 38:3-5, Psalms 38:18); or

(b) when it “might” occur “again” (as he felt was possible); or

(c) if I deviate in the slightest degree from perfect virtue; if I inadvertently do anything wrong.

The slipping of the foot is an indication of the want of firmness, and hence, it comes to represent the falling into sin.

They magnify themselves against me - See Psalms 35:26. They exult over me; they triumph; they boast. They “make themselves great” on my fall, or by my being put down. This he says

(a) they were disposed to do, for they had shown a disposition to do it whenever he had fallen into sin;

(b) he apprehended that they would do it again, and they had already begun to magnify themselves against him, as if they were certain that it would occur.

He did not deny that there was ground to fear this, for he felt that his strength was almost gone Psalms 38:17, and that God only could uphold him, and save him from justifying all the expectations of his enemies.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 38:16. When my foot slippeth — They watched for my halting; and when my foot slipped, they rejoiced that I had fallen into sin!