Psalms 38:5

WEB

⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.

KJV

⁵My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

BSB

⁵My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

FBV

⁵My wounds are infected—they're smelling—all because of my stupidity.

Extra References

Isaiah 1:5-6

⁵Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ⁶From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

Jeremiah 8:22

²²Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Psalms 69:5

⁵God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

Psalms 32:3

³When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalms 38:7

⁷For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.