Psalms 6:3

My soul is also sore vexed. Even greater than bodily pain is agony of mind. The psalmist is unable to clear his mind of the thought that he is suffering God’s displeasure. He breaks forth with the piercing exclamation: “O Lord, how long?” as if, groping to express a glimmer of hope in God’s ability to heal, he suddenly realizes, in his humanity, the hopelessness of his plight and, as it were, cries out instead, “How long will this agony continue until I find relief?” (see Job 7:2–4). It seems to him that God has forsaken him in his illness. The Christian may find comfort in the thought that earthly sufferings are insignificant when compared to the joy of heaven (see Rom. 8:18; 2 Cor. 4:17, 18).