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Psalm 39:11

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.”

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Psalm 39:11 in other translations

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

Psalm 39:11 · American Standard Version

Psalm 39:11 in context

  1. 9I was mute.
    I didn’t open my mouth,
    because you did it.
  2. 10Remove your scourge away from me.
    I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
  3. 11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity,
    you consume his wealth like a moth.
    Surely every man is but a breath.”
  4. 12“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.
    Don’t be silent at my tears.
    For I am a stranger with you,
    a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
  5. 13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,
    before I go away and exist no more.”