I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
The word for soul here is the Hebrew nephesh, corresponding to the Greek psuche, and its being full of troubles means inner anguish and trouble. In this connection soul carries precisely the same sense as spirit when spirit is used for being troubled, overwhelmed, anguished and bitter, even in its highest signification, so that no difference in import can be assigned between soul and spirit here.
The verse counts the speaker among those going down into the pit and describes him as a man that has no strength, expressing powerlessness, extreme weakness and nearness to death. To be reckoned with those descending to the pit is to face death itself, cut off and brought to utter lack of strength.
It portrays the dead in the underworld as weak and powerless, inactive and lacking the strength and vitality of embodied life. Death cuts a person off from God's hand, the dead cannot praise the Lord and their voices are silent in death. Their hope is the resurrection, when the Son of God will awaken them.
The word for soul here is the Hebrew nephesh, corresponding to the Greek psuche, and its being full of troubles means inner anguish and trouble. In this connection soul carries precisely the same sense as spirit when spirit is used for being troubled, overwhelmed, anguished and bitter, even in its highest signification, so that no difference in import can be assigned between soul and spirit here.
The verse counts the speaker among those going down into the pit and describes him as a man that has no strength, expressing powerlessness, extreme weakness and nearness to death. To be reckoned with those descending to the pit is to face death itself, cut off and brought to utter lack of strength.
It portrays the dead in the underworld as weak and powerless, inactive and lacking the strength and vitality of embodied life. Death cuts a person off from God's hand, the dead cannot praise the Lord and their voices are silent in death. Their hope is the resurrection, when the Son of God will awaken them.