Psalms 39:11
With reproofs against iniquity, || You have corrected man, || And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, || Only, every man [is] vanity. Selah.
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10Turn aside Your stroke from off me, || From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.
Cross References
Job 4:19Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay || (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, || They bruise them before a moth).
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, || A moth has consumed him as a garment.”
Psalms 38:1A PSALM OF DAVID. “TO CAUSE TO REMEMBER.” YHWH, do not reprove me in Your wrath, || Nor discipline me in Your fury.
Psalms 102:10From Your indignation and Your wrath, || For You have lifted me up, || And cast me down.
Hosea 5:12And I [am] as a moth to Ephraim, || And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.
1 Corinthians 11:30Because of this many [are] weak and sickly 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 →