John Trapp on Psalms 38:4

Verſ. 4.Sicut aquae praevalentes in quibus erat abſorptus▪ Kimchi For mine iniquities are gone over my head] So that I am even overwhelmed by them, and almoſt drowned in perdition and deſtruction. The Goſpel is poſt naeufragium tabula; and aſſureth us that God hath caſt all our ſins into the bottom of the Sea; and this keepeth the head of a ſinking ſoul above water.

As an heavy burden] How light ſoever ſin ſeemeth in the committing, it will lye full heavy, even as a Talent of lead, Zach. 5.7. or as an huge Mountain, Heb. 12.1.A facie irae tuae. A facie peccati mei. A facie ſtulritiae meae. when once we come to a ſight and ſenſe of it, when Gods wrath and mans ſin ſhall face one another, as the former verſe hath it, according to the originall.