Psalm 38:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.

New Living Translation
My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins.

English Standard Version
My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,

Berean Study Bible
My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

New American Standard Bible
My wounds grow foul and fester Because of my foolishness.

NASB 1995
My wounds grow foul and fester Because of my folly.

NASB 1977
My wounds grow foul and fester. Because of my folly,

Amplified Bible
My wounds are loathsome and foul Because of my foolishness.

Christian Standard Bible
My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.

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

Good News Translation
Because I have been foolish, my sores stink and rot.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My wounds smell rotten. They fester because of my stupidity.

International Standard Version
My wounds have putrefied and festered because of my foolishness.

NET Bible
My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

New King James Version
My wounds are foul and festering Because of my foolishness.

King James 2000 Bible
My wounds are foul and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

New Heart English Bible
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

World English Bible
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

American King James Version
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

American Standard Version
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

A Faithful Version
My wounds are putrefied and fester because of my foolishness.

Darby Bible Translation
My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.

English Revised Version
My wounds stink and are corrupt, because of my foolishness.

Webster's Bible Translation
My wounds are offensive, and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
My woundes are putrified, and corrupt because of my foolishnes.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
My woundes stinke and are corrupt: through my foolishnes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
My woundes styncke & are corrupte, thorow my folishnesse.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Stunk—my wounds have become corrupt, "" Because of my folly.

Young's Literal Translation
Stunk -- become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly.

Smith's Literal Translation
For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
My sores are putrified and corrupted, because of my foolishness.

Catholic Public Domain Version
My sores have putrefied and been corrupted before the face of my foolishness.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
My wounds defile me and rot me even from the presence of my crime.

Lamsa Bible
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
My wounds are noisome, they fester, Because of my foolishness.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
















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