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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• ¹A Psalm of David; to bring to remembrance.{HR}O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger,{HR}Nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
²For thine arrows have entered into me,{HR}And thy hand hath come down upon me.
³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;{HR}There is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
⁴For mine iniquities have passed over my head;{HR}As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
⁵My wounds have stunk;{HR}They have consumed away because of my folly.
⁶I have been bowed down,{HR}I have been brought low to the utmost,{HR}All the day have I walked mourning.
⁷For my loins are filled with burning,{HR}And there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸I have been feeble and broken to the uttermost;{HR}I have groaned because of the groaning of my heart. (Psa. 38:1‑8)

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Psa. 90:7‑10• ⁷For we decay in thine anger,{HR}And in thy wrath are we confounded.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,{HR}Our secret [sins] in the light of thy face.
⁹For all our days are turned away in thy wrath:{HR}We spend our years as a thought.
¹⁰The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:7‑10)

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1 Cor. 5:5• ⁵to deliver such an one to Satan for 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 rather many are falling asleep.
³¹But if we were discerning ourselves, we should not be judged;
³²but when judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. (1 Cor. 11:30‑32)

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Heb. 12:6• ⁶for whom Jehovah loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. (Heb. 12:6)

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Rev. 3:19• ¹⁹I, as many as I love, 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;{HR}For thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.
¹¹My days [are] as a shadow stretched out,{HR}And for me, I am withered as grass. (Psa. 102:10‑11)

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Job 4:19• ¹⁹How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,{HR}The foundation of which [is] in the dust,{HR}Which are crushed as though moths. (Job 4:19)

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Job 13:28• ²⁸And he as a rotten thing consumeth,{HR}As a garment which the moth hath eaten. (Job 13:28)

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Job 30:30• ³⁰My skin off me is black,{HR}And my bones are burned with heat, (Job 30:30)

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Isa. 50:9• ⁹Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who [is] he [that] shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. (Isa. 50:9)

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

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Psa. 39:5• ⁵Behold, thou hast made my days handbreadths,{HR}And my lifetime as nothing before thee:{HR}Surely all vanity [is] every man appointed. Selah. (Psa. 39:5)

• He dare not defend himself for the Lord had sent the stroke. He who sent it can alone remove it. (“Psalm 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."

W. Kelly Translation

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With chastisement for iniquity thou correctest man,{HR}And consumest like the moth what he desireth;{HR}Only vanity is every man. Selah.