Psalms 6:7 - Exposition

Mine eye is consumed because of grief ; or, mine eye is wasted away because of provocation. The eye falls in, becomes dull, and, as it were, "wastes away" through long-continued grief (comp. Psalms 31:9 ). The kind of grief expressed by the word ka'as ( כַעַס ) is "that which arises from provocation or spiteful treatment" (Kay). It waxeth old because of all mine enemies . It becomes dull and heavy and sunken, like the eye of an old man. How often has it not been noted that nothing so much ages a man as grief!