Psalms 39:11

Psalms 39:11 in other versions

• 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
• New Living Translation (NLT)When you discipline us for our sins, you consume like a moth what is precious to us. Each of us is but a breath. Interlude

Context of Psalms 39:11

9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 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. 12Hear 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. 13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psalms 39:11 word by word

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

• When thou with rebukesתּוֹכַ֫חַתtôkêchâh tôkachath · argumentH8433
• dost correctיָסַרyâsar · to disciplineH3256
• manאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• for iniquityעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
• thou makest his beautyחָמַדchâmad · to desireH2530
• to consume awayמָסָהmâsâh · to liquefyH4529
• like a mothעָשׁ‛âsh ‛ăsab · mothH6211
• surely every manאָדָם'âdâm · manH120
• vanityהֶ֫בֶלhebel hăbêl · vanityH1892
• Selahסֶ֫לָהselâh · SelahH5542

Cross-references for Psalms 39:11

• Psalms 38:1O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
• Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
• 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.
• 1 Corinthians 11:30For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
• Hebrews 12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
• Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Psalms 102:10Because 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?
• Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
• Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
• 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.
• Hosea 5:12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
• Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 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