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Psa. 39:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest ψhis beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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that which is to be desired in him to melt away.

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Psa. 38:1‑8• ¹<<A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.>> O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
²For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
⁴For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
⁵My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
⁶I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
⁷For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. (Psa. 38:1‑8)

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Psa. 90:7‑10• ⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
⁹For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:7‑10)

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1 Cor. 5:5• 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 Cor. 5:5)

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1 Cor. 11:30‑32• ³⁰For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
³¹For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
³²But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. (1 Cor. 11:30‑32)

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Heb. 12:6• ⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. (Heb. 12:6)

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Rev. 3:19• ¹⁹As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. (Rev. 3:19)

his beauty, etc.

Heb. that which is to be desired in him tomelt away.

Psa. 102:10‑11• ¹⁰Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
¹¹My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. (Psa. 102:10‑11)

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Job 4:19• ¹⁹How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? (Job 4:19)

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Job 13:28• ²⁸And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. (Job 13:28)

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Job 30:30• ³⁰My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. (Job 30:30)

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Isa. 50:9• 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. (Isa. 50:9)

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Hos. 5:12• ¹²Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. (Hos. 5:12)

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Psa. 39:5• 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. (Psa. 39:5)

• He dare not defend himself for the Lord had sent the stroke. He who sent it can alone remove it. (“Psalms 39” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume awayd like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.

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Lit. "melt."