Psalm 38:5 {37:6}
Good News Translation
Because I have been foolish, my sores stink and rot.

New Revised Standard Version
My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness;

Contemporary English Version
Because of my foolishness, I am covered with sores that stink and spread.

New American Bible
Foul and festering are my sores because of my folly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness.

My wounds.

Psalm 38:5 My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness.

Psalm 32:3 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.

Isaiah 1:5,6 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. . . .

Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?

Context
Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
4For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me. 5My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness.6I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.…
Cross References
Job 31:40
Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

Psalm 69:5
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:

Psalm 38:4
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