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.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10Remove your scourge away from me.I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
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 38:1A Psalm by David, for a memorial.Lord, do not 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 →