Psalms 22:6

Psalms 22:6. But I am a worm, &c.— As if he had said, "Thou hearest others; but, as for me, thou sufferest me to pray, to groan, and to weep, but thou wilt not seem to hear me." Christ may be said to have been a worm, with respect to the mean and poor condition in which he lived; but especially to the kind of death which he suffered; for he was stripped of his clothes, and fixed upon the cross, naked as a worm of the earth: See Philippians 2:7. Matthew 27:39-43. Indeed, the best way to understand the sense of this psalm is to read the history of our Saviour's passion.