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Psalms 39:11

Psalms 39:11 is verse 11 of Psalms chapter 39, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

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

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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.

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.

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Psalms 39:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

10 Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

11 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

12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

13 Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 38:1

O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

Psalms 38:2

For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

Psalms 38:3

There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 38:4

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

Psalms 38:5

My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

Psalms 38:6

I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

Psalms 38:7

For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.

Psalms 38:8

I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

Psalms 90:7

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Psalms 90:8

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Psalms 90:9

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

Psalms 90:10

The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

1 Corinthians 5:5

hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:30

That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 11:31

Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.

1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

Hebrews 12:6

For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

Revelation 3:19

Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

Psalms 102:10

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

Psalms 102:11

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Job 13:28

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

Job 30:30

My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

Isaiah 50:9

Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.

Hosea 5:12

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

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