John Trapp on Psalms 38:5

Verſ. 5. My wounds ſtink, and are corrupt] What his grief or diſeaſe was, we read not; ſome ſay the Leproſy; ſome take all this allegorically, the word rendred wounds, Livores vibices turnices. ſignifieth ſtripes, ſcarres, wailes, mattery ſoares, running ulcers, the effects of the envenomed arrowes of the Almighty. Could we but foreſee what ſin will coſt us, we durſt not but be innocent. That we do not, is extream fooliſhneſſe, as David here acknowledgeth.

Becauſe of my fooliſhneſſe] In not conſidering aforehand the hainouſneſſe of my ſin[illegible: 1 letter]nor the heavineſſe of the divine diſpleaſure. The word ſignifieth unadviſed raſhneſſe, Prov. 14.17. and tis probable he meaneth his great ſin with Bathſheba, wherein he was miſcarried by his luſts to his coſt. See Pſal. 107.17, 18. Becauſe of my fooliſhneſſe, i.e. Quia non praveni Nathanons confeſſione, ſaith R. Obadiah, becauſe I prevented not Nathans comming, by a voluntary confeſſion of my ſin unto the Lord.