Psalms 42:10

My bones are smitten asunder with mine adversaries" reproaches,

While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Lit. with crushing in my bones do mine adversaries reproach me. They stab him to the heart with their taunts. -The bones," in the language of Hebrew poetry, denote the whole physical organism of the living man, as being the framework of it. They are the seat of pain; and mental torture affects the body. Cp. Psalms 6:2 (note); Lamentations 3:4; Isaiah 38:13.