Psalms 39:11
When you discipline us, reprimanding us for our sins, it's like a moth eating up what is precious to us. All of us are just a breath… Selah.
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10Please stop hitting me! Your beating has worn me out!
Cross References
Job 4:19how much more does this apply to those who live in these houses made of clay, whose foundations are based on dust, who fall apart like clothing to a moth?
Job 13:28I'm falling apart like something rotten, like moth-eaten clothes.
Psalms 38:1Lord, please don't condemn me because you're angry with me; don't punish me because you're furious with me!
Psalms 102:10because of your anger and hostility, for you have picked me up and tossed me away.
Hosea 5:12I am like a maggot to Ephraim, and like something rotten to the people of Judah.
1 Corinthians 11:30That's the reason why many of you are weak and sick, and some even have died.
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 →