KJV 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.
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Psalm 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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
WEB 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.
ASV 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
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Psalm 39
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 not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹתH8433 · to.khe.chahrebukeעַל־H5921 · aluponעָוֹ֨ן׀H5771 · a.vaniniquity: crimeיִסַּ֬רְתָּH3256 · ya.sarto disciplineאִ֗ישׁH376 · ishmanוַתֶּ֣מֶסH4529 · ma.sahto liquefyכָּעָ֣שׁH6211 · ashmothחֲמוּד֑וֹH2530 · cha.madto desireאַ֤ךְH389 · akhsurelyהֶ֖בֶלH1892 · he.velvanityכָּל־H3605 · kolallאָדָ֣םH120 · a.dammanסֶֽלָה׃H5542 · se.lahSelah
Cross-references
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.Hebrews 12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.Isaiah 50:9Behold, 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.1 Corinthians 11:30-32For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.1 Corinthians 5:5To 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.Psalm 102:10-11Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.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?Psalm 38:1-8A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.Hosea 5:12Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.2 Peter 2:16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.Psalm 90:7-10For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
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