a.shesh describes wasting away in psalmic expressions of bodily and personal distress.

The attested forms occur in psalmic distress, with Psalm 31:10 explicitly presenting bodily decline as the bones “waste away”; the other occurrences stand in contexts of weeping, reproach, and flight, though the translation does not isolate the term's contribution there.

1. Wasting away amid distress · dominant

   In Psalm 31:10, the Qal perfect form occurs in a lament where the APB renders, “my bones waste away,” following sorrow, sighing, and failing strength. The same verbal use appears in Psalm 6:8 amid weeping and in Psalm 31:11 amid reproach and avoidance; the APB renders those verses' wider situations but does not word-align the term.

   Psalm 31:10Psalm 6:8Psalm 31:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “waste away” in Psalm 31:10. In Psalm 6:8 and Psalm 31:11, it presents the surrounding lament—“the voice of my weeping,” reproach, and people fleeing—without making this term's English rendering identifiable.