For I will declare mine iniquity,.... Either to men, to ease his mind, justify God in his proceedings with him, and for their caution and admonition: or rather to God, against whom he had sinned, and who only could pardon him; with a view to which he was determined to make a free and open confession of it before him:I will be sorry for my sin, or "careful" about it; that is, how he committed it for the future: true repentance for sin produces a carefulness to abstain from all appearance of it; see 2Co 7:10.
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Psalms 38:18
Psalms 38:18
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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should seem, not only took occasion from the weakness of his body and
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