Psalms Chapter 39 verse 11 Holy Bible
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
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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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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.
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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.
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Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
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When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
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With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity `is' every man. Selah.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity. The calamities which God sends on a man are of the nature of "rebukes" addressed to his spirit. They are intended to teach, instruct, warn, deter from evil-doing (see Job 36:8-10). Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth; or, "thou dost consume, as by a moth, what he prizes;" i.e. his health, his strength, "all wherein he has joy and satisfaction" (Hengstenberg). As a moth corrodes a beautiful garment, so does thy displeasure and heavy hand pressing on him corrode and destroy all which constituted his delight and glory. Surely every man is vanity (comp. ver. 5 ad fin.). This has become a sort of refrain, terminating the second as well as the first part of the psalm (comp. Psalm 107:8, 15, 21, 31; Ecclesiastes 2:1, 11, 15, 19, 21, 23, 26; Isaiah 9:12, 17, 21).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) When.--This is unnecessary. With judgments for sin Thou chastenest a man.Rebukes.--The word rendered "reproofs" in Psalm 38:14, where see Note.Beauty.--Literally, Something desirable. (See margin.) Thou, like a moth (consuming a garment: see Pr. Bk. Version), causest his desirable things to melt. (For the image, singularly apt. and natural in a country where "changes of raiment" were so prized, and hoarded up as wealth, comp. Job 13:28; Matthew 6:19; James 5:2.)
