Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageFor when I refused to speak, my bones wasted away as I groaned throughout every day.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GFor when I kept silent, my bones wore away through my roaring all the day long.
KJV
King James VersionWhen I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleWhen I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
Footnotes
*Sha'agah* ('my roaring') is vivid animal imagery—the same word used for a lion's roar (Psalm 22:1; Ezekiel 19:7)—suggesting the psalmist's unconfessed pain was visceral and barely containable, not a quiet inner anguish. The paradox is deliberate and poignant: *silence* before Elohim produces *roaring* in the body. Suppressed confession does not suppress suffering; it merely relocates it into the bones. FOG renders *sha'agah* as 'roaring' to preserve this raw, embodied force; FOG Message softens to 'groaning' while retaining the physicality. The bones (*atsamot*) as the seat of inner vitality also echo Psalm 31:10 and Lamentations 1:13, situating this suffering in a recognisable tradition of somatic grief.