Psalm 39:11 “You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a mo…”

Psalm 39:11

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard 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

Geneva Bible 1599

When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.

Darby Translation

When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

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Cross references

“When”

Hebrews 12:6 1 Corinthians 11:30–32 Revelation 3:19 1 Corinthians 5:5 Psalm 38:1–8 Psalm 90:7–10

Hebrews 12:6 · BSB

For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

1 Corinthians 11:30–32 · BSB

That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

Revelation 3:19 · BSB

Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

1 Corinthians 5:5 · BSB

hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

Psalm 38:1–8 · BSB

O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

Psalm 90:7–10 · BSB

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

“his beauty, etc”

Job 13:28 Isaiah 50:9 Job 4:19 Job 30:30 Hosea 5:12 Psalm 102:10

Job 13:28 · BSB

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

Isaiah 50:9 · BSB

Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.

Job 4:19 · BSB

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Job 30:30 · BSB

My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

Hosea 5:12 · BSB

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

Psalm 102:10 · BSB

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

Also

2 Peter 2:16

2 Peter 2:16 · BSB

But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

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