Psalms 39:11
With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
Cross References
Job 4:19Also — the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
Psalms 38:1A Psalm of David, 'To cause to remember.' Jehovah, in Thy wrath reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me.
Psalms 102:10From Thine indignation and Thy wrath, For Thou hast lifted me up, And dost cast me down.
Hosea 5:12And I [am] as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.
1 Corinthians 11:30Because of this, among you many [are] weak and sickly, and sleep do many;
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 →