King James Version

Psalms 38:7

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

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In the Hebrew text this line is Psalms 38:8.

כִּֽיkiassuredכִּיconjunction — “assured”H3588(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexedand, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though, + til…כְ֭סָלַיkhesalayloinכֶּסֶלnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “loin”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH3689properly, fatness, i.e. by implication (literally) the loin (as the seat of the leaf fat) or (generally) the viscera; also (figuratively) silliness or (in a good sense) trustconfidence, flank, folly, hope, loin.מָלְא֣וּmalevbe at an endמָלֵאverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “be at an end”, a completed actionH4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)accomplish, confirm, [phrase] consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, [idiom] draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-) flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, s…נִקְלֶ֑הniqlehdriedקָלָהverb, niphal, participle, absolute — “dried”, a verb used as a describing wordH7033to toast, i.e. scorch partially or slowlydried, loathsome, parch, roast.וְאֵ֥יןveeynand elseאַיִןconjunction, particle, negative — “and else”H369a non-entity; generally used as a negative particleelse, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare H370 (אַיִן).מְ֝תֹ֗םmetomsoundnessמְתֹםnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “soundness”, the ordinary formH4974wholesomeness; also (adverb) completelymen (by reading H4962 (מַת)), soundness.בִּבְשָׂרִֽיbivsariin bodyבָּשָׂרpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “in body”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH1320flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of amanbody, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-) kind, [phrase] nakedness, self, skin.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

(38-8) For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh.

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American Standard Version (1901)

For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.

Young’s Literal Translation

For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.

World English Bible

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

Darby Translation

For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Douay-Rheims

Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

(38-8) For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ὅτι ἡ ψυχή μου ἐπλησθη ἐμπαιγμῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἴασις ἐν τῇ σαρκί μου.