Psalms 39:10
Turn aside Your stroke from off me, || From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
In Context
9I have been mute, I do not open my mouth, || Because You have done [it].
Cross References
Leviticus 10:3And Moses says to Aaron, “It [is] that which YHWH has spoken, saying, By those drawing near to Me I am sanctified, and in the face of all the people I am honored”; and Aaron is silent.
Job 2:10And he says to her, “As one of the foolish women speaks, you speak; indeed, do we receive the good from God, and we do not receive the bad?” In all this Job has not sinned with his lips.
Job 13:21Put Your hand far off from me, || And do not let Your terror terrify me.
Psalms 25:16Turn to me, and favor me, || For I [am] lonely and afflicted.
Psalms 38:3Soundness is not in my flesh, || Because of Your indignation, || Peace is not in my bones, || Because of my sin.
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 →