Psalms 39:11
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.
King James Version
In Context
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Psalms 38:1O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Psalms 102:10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Hosea 5:12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
1 Corinthians 11:30For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many 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 →