What Does Psalm 38:10 Mean in the King James?
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Exhaustion reaches beyond weakness when the very light by which the world is seen is gone.
THE MEANING
The verse gives exhaustion its full shape: the heart pounds, strength leaves, and the light of the eyes is no longer present. It holds inner distress, bodily capacity, and perception together as one lived condition.
THE ROOT
אוֹר
ʾôr
GROWS FROM
אור
ʾ-w-r
To shine; to become light.
The phrase “light of mine eyes” places אוֹר (ʾôr, light) within sight itself: what is absent is the brightness by which the world is perceived. This root also gives words for a lamp or luminary and for shining, holding both illumination and the act of being lit in the verse’s image.
ALSO GROWS
māʾôr: A body or object that gives light.
מָאוֹר
The branch shows light as something that illuminates what is around it; the verse names that illumination as absent from the eyes.
hēʾîr: To illuminate or cause to shine.
הֵאִיר
This verb keeps light active: a brightness can fill or leave the eyes, as the verse describes.
THE PATTERN
Scripture treats the light of the eyes as bound up with the vitality of the whole person.
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.THE THREAD
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;Psalm 13:3 uses the same Hebrew root אור (ʾ-w-r, to shine or become light) in its plea to “lighten mine eyes.” Together, the verses let the same image hold both depleted eye-light and a plea for it to be lit.
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