O the happiness of him whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.
O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.
When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
David speaks of a pressure exerted on him before he confessed his sins. Everyone knows in part, this pressure that comes from sinful behavior, to let it go and give in to corrupted things: bad acts torment most people who know better, they eat at a person in ways we don't readily understand.
If we wanted a mystical reading, we could see this third verse as a man fighting against himself, how people so often work against their own best interests in the interests of expediency and perceived gains.
Such is often the way that one bad act spawns more bad acts, such as one bad act dictating bad acts to cover the first bad act, kind of a "self-defeating prophecy" that goes to work in one's life. Many say this is the Eternal Enemy, Satan himself, and his demons, at work in our hearts that lead us to these bad acts.
Since the Age of Enlightenment, we now blame ourselves for our bad acts; we don't blame demons for types of mental disease. Though we had men like Kierkegaard and Spinoza extolling God to their fellow thinkers, God had partly fallen away, leaving man in a cloak of guilt and self-blame.
If only, that first verse: a covering for our iniquities, the erasure of blame!
That third verse again: his roaring. He had perhaps a spiritual emptiness before he handed it over to God, and he worked against himself all day, and was spiritually empty during the night.
Until God.
He found God a refuge and a ready and willing help, a deliverer.
O the happiness of him
as the King James has it:
"Blessed is the man..."
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
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