Psalms 39:11
\39:10\No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
10\39:9\I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
Job 13:28Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Psalms 38:1A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory.
Psalms 102:10\102:9\I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
Hosea 5:12And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.
1 Corinthians 11:30For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 39:8-13
Confidence in God; David Pleading with God. 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. 12 Hear my prayer, O Lord , and give ear unto my cry; hold… Read the whole commentary →