Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Psalms 31:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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Quick Meaning
Psalm 31:10: The reason or consequence in “For my life is spent with grief, and my years with…” supports the surrounding claim in “Refuge amid slander, isolation, and grief.”
A spirit committed while the vessel feels broken
This verse is one part of that explanation in Psalms 31:1–24. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Psalms 31:1–24
Read Psalms 31:10 with 31:1–24. Read alone, “For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing” could lose the individual voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 31:1–24, the individual voice carries the movement “Refuge amid slander, isolation, and grief” as part of “Refuge amid slander, isolation, and grief.” Its lament-confidence form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Psalms 31:1–24 opens Psalm 31 with “In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy…” and establishes the individual voice and “Refuge amid slander, isolation, and grief” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Within that relationship, Psalm 31:10 supplies a reason or consequence through “For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing” and must be read with the claim it supports.
What Remains True
Read “For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing” as part of the individual voice in “Refuge amid slander, isolation, and grief.” Biblical faith can speak unresolved pain directly, remain in relationship, seek safe help, and refuse the claim that anguish proves guilt or failed faith. The local movement is “Refuge amid slander, isolation, and grief.” The unit's reviewed limit is: The poem's bodily and social anguish must not be romanticized, diagnosed from afar, or used to tell sufferers that trust ends distress on demand.
How It Can Shape Life
- Start with the line's work inside “Refuge amid slander, isolation, and grief”—Psalm 31:10 supplies a reason or consequence through “For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing” and must be read with the claim it supports. Then make room for the emotion in “For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing”, ask what safety and companionship require now, and resist a neat answer the psalm itself does not give.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Psalms 31:1–24 — Refuge amid slander, isolation, and griefSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 31:1–24, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 31:1–24
Open the fixed Hebrew Psalms file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Notes: Psalms 1-150
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, current official online edition
Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 31:1–24.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Psalm 31 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 31:1–24
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