Psalm 39:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When with rebukes You correct and chasten man for sin, You waste his beauty like a moth and what is dear to him consumes away; surely every man is a mere breath. Selah [pause, and think calmly of that]! American Standard Version (1901) 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 Common English Bible You discipline people for their sin, punishing them; like a moth, you ruin what they treasure. Yes, a human life is just a puff of air! Selah Catholic Public Domain Version I have not concealed your justice within my heart. I have spoken your truth and your salvation. I have not concealed your mercy and your truth from a great assembly. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council. |
how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.
If he would take his rod away from me and not let dread of him terrify me,
It is the Lord God who helps me; who will declare me guilty? All of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.
you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves and chastises every child whom he accepts.”
but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.