Psalm 107:17
New International Version
Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities.

New Living Translation
Some were fools; they rebelled and suffered for their sins.

English Standard Version
Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;

Berean Standard Bible
Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

King James Bible
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

New King James Version
Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

New American Standard Bible
Fools, because of their rebellious way, And because of their guilty deeds, were afflicted.

NASB 1995
Fools, because of their rebellious way, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

NASB 1977
Fools, because of their rebellious way, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

Legacy Standard Bible
Ignorant fools, because of their way of transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

Amplified Bible
Fools, because of their rebellious way, And because of their sins, were afflicted.

Christian Standard Bible
Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their iniquities.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their sins.

American Standard Version
Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He helped them from the way of their sins and they were humbled by their evils.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He helped them out of the way of their iniquity; for they were brought low because of their iniquities.

Contemporary English Version
Some of you had foolishly committed a lot of sins and were in terrible pain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.

English Revised Version
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Fools suffered because of their disobedience and because of their crimes.

Good News Translation
Some were fools, suffering because of their sins and because of their evil;

International Standard Version
Because of their rebellious ways, fools suffered for their iniquities.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Crazed because of the way of their transgression, And afflicted because of their iniquities--

Literal Standard Version
Fools, by means of their transgression, | And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

Majority Standard Bible
Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

New American Bible
Some fell sick from their wicked ways, afflicted because of their sins.

NET Bible
They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins.

New Revised Standard Version
Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities endured affliction;

New Heart English Bible
Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

Webster's Bible Translation
Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

World English Bible
Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

Young's Literal Translation
Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

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Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
16For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron. 17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction. 18They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.…

Cross References
Isaiah 65:6
Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,

Isaiah 65:7
both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers," says the LORD. "Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds."

Jeremiah 4:18
"Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!"

Jeremiah 30:14
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

Jeremiah 30:15
Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

Lamentations 3:39
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

Ezekiel 24:23
Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.


Treasury of Scripture

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

fools.

Psalm 14:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Psalm 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

because

Psalm 38:1-8
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure…

Numbers 11:33,34
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague…

Numbers 12:10-13
And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous…

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Psalm 107
1. The psalmist exhorts the redeemed in praising God to observe his manifold providence
4. Over travelers
10. Over captives
17. Over sick men
23. Over sailors
33. And in diverse varieties of life.














(17-22) The sick.

(17) Fools--i.e., infatuated in wickedness. (Comp. the noun foolishness in Psalm 38:5 with the same ethical sense; and comp. Job 5:3 and the frequent connection of folly with sin in the book of Proverbs.) Another Hebrew word is used in the same way (Psalm 14:1).

Because of their transgressions.--Better more literally, because of way of transgression, or, their course of sin, indicating a settled habit.

Are afflicted . . .--Properly, brought (or bring) affliction on themselves. LXX. and Vulgate, "were humbled;" and some understand "afflict themselves"--i.e., grieve for their sins. This would explain the distaste for food in the next verse equally well as actual sickness. But the analogy of the other stanzas is not in favour of indicating repentance before the emphatic "then they cry," &c.

Verses 17-22. - A third class of persons under God's displeasure are punished by grievous sickness, and brought to the very verge of the grave. They, too, in many cases, turn to God, and, "crying to him," are delivered from their peril. It is for them, under such circumstances, to make a return by means of praise and thanks giving. Verse 17. - Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Some read חולִים, "sick men," for ךאוִלִים, "fools," here. But the change is not necessary. Folly and sin are regarded as two aspects of the same moral condition by the sacred writers, and sickness is spoken of as an ordinary punishment for them (Job 33:17-22; 2 Kings 5:27; 2 Chronicles 21:15; 2 Chronicles 26:16-19; Acts 12:23).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Fools,
אֱ֭וִלִים (’ĕ·wi·lîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 191: Foolish

in their rebellious
פִּשְׁעָ֑ם (piš·‘ām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6588: Transgression

ways,
מִדֶּ֣רֶךְ (mid·de·reḵ)
Preposition-m | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

and through their iniquities,
וּֽ֝מֵעֲוֺֽנֹתֵיהֶ֗ם (ū·mê·‘ă·wō·nō·ṯê·hem)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity

suffered affliction.
יִתְעַנּֽוּ׃ (yiṯ·‘an·nū)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6031: To be bowed down or afflicted


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