Psalms 73:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַאֲנִ֗י כִּ֭מְעַט *נטוי **נָטָ֣יוּ רַגְלָ֑י כְּ֝אַ֗יִן *שפכה **שֻׁפְּכ֥וּ אֲשֻׁרָֽי׃

Transliteration

Wa-ani kim'at natayu raglai; ke-ayin shuppechu ashuray.

Grammar Details

• *Wa-ani*: conjunction waw + pronoun, 1st person singular - and I
• *kim'at*: preposition + noun - as/like little/almost
• *natayu*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural (ketiv/qere variation) - they stretched out/inclined
• *raglai*: noun, feminine dual construct + 1st person singular suffix - my feet
• *ke-ayin*: preposition + adverb - as nothing/almost
• *shuppechu*: verb, pual perfect, 3rd person plural (ketiv/qere variation) - they were poured out
• *ashuray*: noun, feminine plural construct + 1st person singular suffix - my steps

Word Meanings

• *kim'at*: almost/nearly/within little
• *natayu*: stretched out/inclined/slipped/bent (ketiv: *natuy* - inclined [singular]; qere: *natayu* - they inclined [plural])
• *ke-ayin*: as nothing/almost
• *shuppechu*: were poured out/slipped (ketiv: *shupkhah* - was poured [singular feminine]; qere: *shuppechu* - they were poured [plural])

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But as for me, my feet almost slipped, my steps nearly stumbled.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my ste had well nigh slipped.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone{H8804)}{H8675)}{H8803)}; my steps had well nigh slipped{H8795)}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Neuerthelesse my fete were allmost gone, my treadinges had wel nye slipte.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had welneere slipt.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Neuerthelesse, my feete were almost gone from me: my steppes had almost slypt.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

• World English Bible (2000)

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But as for me, my feet almost slipped; my feet almost slid out from under me.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 94:18 : 18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.
• 1 Sam 2:9 : 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no one prevail.
• Ps 17:5 : 5 Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.
• Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I will see your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake with your likeness.
• Ps 38:16 : 16 For I said, 'Hear me, lest otherwise they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.'
• Ps 116:8 : 8 For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
• Rom 7:23-24 : 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
• Josh 24:15 : 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
• Ps 35:13 : 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned to my own bosom.
• 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
• 1 Chr 22:7 : 7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God:
• Job 12:5 : 5 He who is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him who is at ease.
• Job 21:4 : 4 As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?
• Ps 5:7 : 7 But as for me, I will come into your house in the abundance of your mercy; in fear will I worship toward your holy temple.