Psalms 39:11
Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
10I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
Job 13:28Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.
Psalms 38:1A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.
Psalms 102:10For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
Hosea 5:12And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.
1 Corinthians 11:30Therefore are there many inform and weak among you, and many sleep.
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 →