Psalms 39:11
When you rebuke someone to punish their sins, you consume, like a moth, what they tresure. Everyone is only a breath. Selah
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10Remove your stroke from off me: by the might of your hand I am spent.
Cross References
Psalms 38:1Reprove me not, Lord, in your anger, and chasten me not in your wrath;
Psalms 102:10Because of your passionate anger, you did raise me, then hurl me to the ground.
Hosea 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, like rottenness to the house of Judah.
1 Corinthians 11:30That is why so many among you are weak and ill, and why some are sleeping.
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 →