Psalm 39:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹¹ When thou dost chasten man with rebukes for sin, thou dost consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely every man is a mere breath! Selah

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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

¹¹ 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)

¹¹ 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

¹¹ 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

¹¹ 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

¹¹ 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.

Psalm 39:11 Cross References

Job 13:28

Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 30:30

My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Job 9:34

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.

Isaiah 50:9

Behold, the Lord God helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.

Hosea 5:12

Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.

1 Corinthians 5:5

you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Hebrews 12:6

For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

2 Peter 2:16

but was rebuked for his own transgression; a dumb ass spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent.