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God's Hand in Hardship
The psalmist doesn't attribute his suffering to bad luck or fate. He explicitly identifies it as coming from God ('thine arrows... thy hand'). Commentators like John Calvin emphasize this as a mark of spiritual wisdom. Recognizing that our trials are under God's sovereign control is the first step toward seeking His mercy and deliverance, rather than despairing or seeing life as random chaos.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 38:2
18th Century
Theologian
For your arrows stick fast in me - See the notes at Job 6:4. The word rendered “stick fast”—נחת nâchath—properly means to …
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 38:2
19th Century
Bishop
For your arrows ... — The same figure is used for the disease from which Job suffered (elephantiasis? Job 6:4); for fam…
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 38:2
19th Century
Preacher
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
God may aim his arrows even at his own children, and he may lay hi…
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John Calvin
On Psalms 38:2
16th Century
Theologian
For thy arrows go down in me. He shows that he was compelled by urgent need to ask for relief from his misery, for he was crushed under th…
John Gill
On Psalms 38:2
17th Century
Pastor
For your arrows stick fast in me
Meaning either words with which as a father the Lord rebuked him; and which were sh…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 38:1–11
17th Century
Minister
Nothing will trouble the heart of a good person as much as the sense of God's anger. The way to keep the heart quiet is to keep ourselves in the lo…