Psalms 39:11
When you discipline people for sin, 1 you consume the things they desire like a moth; 1 surely all people are nothing but vapor. Selah 1
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10Stop wounding me; 1 I am overwhelmed by the blow of your hand. 1
Cross References
Job 4:19how much more is this true of those who live in houses of clay, 1 whose foundation is in the dust, 1 who are crushed sooner than a moth? 1
Job 13:28although I am like a rotten thing that wastes away, 1 like a garment that moths have eaten.
Psalms 38:1Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger; 1 do not punish me in your wrath. 1
Psalms 102:10Because of your raging anger, 1 you have lifted me up to throw me down. 1
Hosea 5:12So I will be like a moth to Ephraim, 1 and like rot to the house of Judah. 1
1 Corinthians 11:30That is why many among you are weak and ill, and some 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 →