Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 38:8

"I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart." — Psalms 38:8 (ASV)

I am feeble and sore broken. —Better, I am become deadly cold, and am quite worn out.

Disquietness. —Properly, roaring. Thus, of the sea (Isaiah 5:30), of lions (Proverbs 19:12; Proverbs 20:2). A very slight alteration once suggested by Hitzig, but since abandoned, would give here, “I roared more than the roaring of a lion.”