Psalms 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
Cross References
Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
Psalms 38:1A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
Psalms 102:10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
Hosea 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
1 Corinthians 11:30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
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 →