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Because of your anger, my whole body is sick;
    my health is broken because of my sins.

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Because of your wrath there is no health(A) in my body;
    there is no soundness in my bones(B) because of my sin.

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Have compassion on me, Lord, for I am weak.
    Heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.

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Have mercy on me,(A) Lord, for I am faint;(B)
    heal me,(C) Lord, for my bones are in agony.(D)

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Oh, give me back my joy again;
    you have broken me—
    now let me rejoice.

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Let me hear joy and gladness;(A)
    let the bones(B) you have crushed rejoice.

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Why do you continue to invite punishment?
    Must you rebel forever?
Your head is injured,
    and your heart is sick.
You are battered from head to foot—
    covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds—
    without any soothing ointments or bandages.

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Why should you be beaten(A) anymore?
    Why do you persist(B) in rebellion?(C)
Your whole head is injured,
    your whole heart(D) afflicted.(E)
From the sole of your foot to the top of your head(F)
    there is no soundness(G)
only wounds and welts(H)
    and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged(I)
    or soothed with olive oil.(J)

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Because of my groaning,
    I am reduced to skin and bones.

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In my distress I groan aloud(A)
    and am reduced to skin and bones.

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40 Instead, let us test and examine our ways.
    Let us turn back to the Lord.
41 Let us lift our hearts and hands
    to God in heaven and say,
42 “We have sinned and rebelled,
    and you have not forgiven us.

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40 Let us examine our ways and test them,(A)
    and let us return to the Lord.(B)
41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands
    to God in heaven,(C) and say:
42 “We have sinned and rebelled(D)
    and you have not forgiven.(E)

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For my days disappear like smoke,
    and my bones burn like red-hot coals.

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For my days vanish like smoke;(A)
    my bones(B) burn like glowing embers.

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We wither beneath your anger;
    we are overwhelmed by your fury.
You spread out our sins before you—
    our secret sins—and you see them all.

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We are consumed by your anger
    and terrified by your indignation.
You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins(A) in the light of your presence.(B)

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Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am in distress.
    Tears blur my eyes.
    My body and soul are withering away.
10 I am dying from grief;
    my years are shortened by sadness.
Sin has drained my strength;
    I am wasting away from within.

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Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress;(A)
    my eyes grow weak with sorrow,(B)
    my soul and body(C) with grief.
10 My life is consumed by anguish(D)
    and my years by groaning;(E)
my strength fails(F) because of my affliction,[a](G)
    and my bones grow weak.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 31:10 Or guilt

19 “Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds,
    with ceaseless aching in their bones.
20 They lose their appetite
    for even the most delicious food.
21 Their flesh wastes away,
    and their bones stick out.
22 They are at death’s door;
    the angels of death wait for them.

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19 “Or someone may be chastened(A) on a bed of pain(B)
    with constant distress in their bones,(C)
20 so that their body finds food(D) repulsive
    and their soul loathes the choicest meal.(E)
21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,(F) once hidden, now stick out.(G)
22 They draw near to the pit,(H)
    and their life to the messengers of death.[a](I)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:22 Or to the place of the dead

So Satan left the Lord’s presence, and he struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot.

Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes.

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So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.(A) Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.(B)

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19 Uzziah, who was holding an incense burner, became furious. But as he was standing there raging at the priests before the incense altar in the Lord’s Temple, leprosy[a] suddenly broke out on his forehead.

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Footnotes

  1. 26:19 Or a contagious skin disease. The Hebrew word used here and throughout this passage can describe various skin diseases.

19 Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the Lord’s temple, leprosy[a](A) broke out on his forehead.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 26:19 The Hebrew for leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verses 20, 21 and 23.