Psalms 39:11

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

12“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

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Cross References

Job 4:19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Job 13:28though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Psalms 38:1LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

Psalms 102:10because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.

Hosea 5:12Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

1 Corinthians 11:30For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few 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 →

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