Psalms 39:11

WEB

¹¹When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

KJV

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.

BSB

¹¹You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

FBV

¹¹When you discipline us, reprimanding us for our sins, it's like a moth eating up what is precious to us. All of us are just a breath… Selah.

Extra References

Job 13:28

²⁸though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

1 Corinthians 11:30-32

³⁰For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. ³¹For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged. ³²But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Revelation 3:19

¹⁹As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Hebrews 12:6

⁶for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Isaiah 50:9

⁹Behold, the Lord GOD will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

Psalms 102:10-11

¹⁰because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away. ¹¹My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

1 Corinthians 5:5

⁵you are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Job 30:30

³⁰My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

Job 4:19

¹⁹How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

2 Peter 2:16

¹⁶but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.