Psalms 39:11

Psalms 39:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth— surely everyone is but a breath.
• English Standard Version (ESV)When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
• New King James Version (NKJV)When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; Surely every man is vapor. Selah

Context of Psalms 39:11

9I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done. 10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand. 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 12Hear 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. 13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

Psalms 39:11 word by word

בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת עַל־עָוֹ֨ן׀ יִסַּ֬רְתָּ אִ֗ישׁ וַתֶּ֣מֶס כָּעָ֣שׁ חֲמוּד֑וֹ אַ֤ךְ הֶ֖בֶל כָּל־אָדָ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃Read the interlinear

• You disciplineיָסַרyâsar · to disciplineH3256
• and correctתּוֹכַ֫חַתtôkêchâh tôkachath · argumentH8433
• a manאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• forעַל‛al · uponH5921
• his iniquityעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
• consumingמָסָהmâsâh · to liquefyH4529
• like a mothעָשׁ‛âsh ‛ăsab · mothH6211
• what he holds dearחָמַדchâmad · to desireH2530
• surelyאַךְ'ak · surelyH389
• eachכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• manאָדָם'âdâm · manH120
• but a vaporהֶ֫בֶלhebel hăbêl · vanityH1892
• Selahסֶ֫לָהselâh · SelahH5542

Cross-references for Psalms 39:11

• Psalms 38:1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
• Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
• 1 Corinthians 5:5hand 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 11:30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
• Hebrews 12:6For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
• Revelation 3:19Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
• Psalms 102:10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
• Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
• Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
• Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
• Isaiah 50:9Surely 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 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
• Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Commentaries on Psalms 39:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11When thou with rebukes dost correct man - תוכחות tochachoth signifies a vindication of proceedings in a court of law, a legal defense. When God comes to maintain the credit and authority of his law against a sinner, he "causes his beauty to consume away:" a metaphor taken from the case of a culprit, who, by the arguments of counsel, and the unimpeachable evidence of witnesses, has the facts all proved against him, grows pale, looks terrified; his…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11When thou with rebukes - The word here rendered “rebukes” means properly: (a) proof or demonstration; (b) confutation or contradiction; (c) reproof or admonition by words; (d) reproof by correction or punishment. This is the meaning here. The idea of the psalmist is, that God, by punishment or calamity, expresses his sense of the evil of human conduct; and that, under such an expression of it, man, being unable to sustain it, melts away or is destroyed…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 7-13 There is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature; but it is to be found in the Lord, and in communion with him; to him we should be driven by our disappointments. If the world be nothing but vanity, may God deliver us from having or seeking our portion in it. When creature-confidences fail, it is our comfort that we have a God to go to, a God to trust in. We may see a good God doing all, and ordering all events concerning us; and a…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11The Lord uses discipline to correct his children (Psalms 38:1, 3, 7; 40:12; see Proverbs 3:11–12; Hebrews 12:5–6).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. From his own case, he argues to that of all, that the destruction of man's enjoyments is ascribable to sin.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 39:11

• Beauty
• Life
• Moth
• Vanity
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Altogether
• Frail
• Jeduthun
• Measure
• Psalms
• Silence
• Vain
• Dumb
• Moth
• Pentateuch

Commentaries on Psalms 39

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings