Proverbia 38:4

Nova Vulgata

[38:5] Quoniam iniquitates meae supergressae sunt caput meum et sicut onus grave gravant me nimis. -

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta terr� ? indica mihi, si habes intelligentiam.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Concaluit cor meum intra me;
et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mine: Psalms 40:12, Ezra 9:6

as an: Leviticus 7:18, Isaiah 53:11, Lamentations 1:14, Matthew 11:28, 1 Peter 2:24

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:1 - bear Leviticus 22:16 - General Numbers 14:34 - shall ye bear Numbers 15:31 - his iniquity Psalms 39:10 - I am consumed Psalms 49:5 - iniquity Psalms 65:3 - prevail Isaiah 24:20 - the transgression Ezekiel 44:10 - bear Zechariah 5:8 - the weight Matthew 18:24 - ten thousand 2 Timothy 3:6 - laden

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head,.... Like an inundation of waters, as the waves and billows of the sea; for the waters to come up to the neck or chin shows great danger; but when they go over the head the case is desperate, and a person is sinking and drowning; compare with this Psalms 69:1; the simile may denote both the number and weight of sins, and also signifies the overwhelming distress the psalmist was in, under a view of them;

as an heavy burden, they are too heavy for me; the guilt of sin upon the conscience, without a view of pardon, lies heavy indeed, and makes a man a burden to himself, as it did Job, Job 7:20; yea, sin is not only grieving and afflicting to pardoned ones, and who know they are pardoned, but it is a burden to them under which they groan; nor is it possible for any so to bear it as to satisfy and make atonement for it; none but Christ could ever do this, and he has done it; nor is there any relief for burdened souls, but by looking to a sin bearing and sin atoning Saviour, and by casting the burden upon him, who invites them to him for rest.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head - This is merely an enlargement of the idea suggested in the last verse - that his present sickness was to be traced to his sin, and that he was suffering the punishment for sin. The idea is here that his sins were very numerous and very aggravated. They had risen up around him, or had so accumulated that the mass rose, like waves of the sea, above his head. A somewhat similar idea - though the thought there refers rather to the number of sins than the degree of guilt - occurs in Psalms 40:12 : “Mine iniquities ... are more than the hairs of my head.”

As an heavy burden ... - That is, they are so heavy that I cannot bear them, and my frame has sunk under them. This might mean either that the sense of sin was so great that he could not bear up under it, but had been crushed by it (compare Psalms 32:3-4); or that on account of sin, “as if” it were a heavy weight, he had been crushed by disease. The general idea is, that the real cause of his sickness was the fact that he was a great sinner, and that God was punishing him for it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 38:4. Mine iniquities are gone over mine head — He represents himself as one sinking in deep waters, or as one oppressed by a burden to which his strength was unequal.