Psalms 39:11 · KJV
“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. {his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away}”
— Psalms 39:11
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. {blow: Heb. conflict}
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}.
Psalms 39 — Context
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst {it}.
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. {blow: Heb. conflict}
11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah. {his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away}
12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}.
13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Cross References
Job 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Isaiah 50:9
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who {is} he {that} shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Hebrews 12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
For this cause many {are} weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Psalms 102:10-11
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
1 Corinthians 5:5
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Hosea 5:12
Therefore {will} I {be} unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. {rottenness: or, a worm}