“When You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah.
And he, like that which is rotten, wastes away, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
My skin became black upon me, and my bones burned with heat.
‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
Let Him take His rod away from me, and let His dread frighten me.
See, the Master יהוה helps Me. Who would declare Me wrong? See, all of them wear out like a garment, a moth eats them.
“So I am to Ephrayim like a moth, and to the house of Yehuḏ
deliver such a one to Satan for destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit be saved in the day of the Master יהושע.
for whom יהוה loves, He disciplines, and flogs every son whom He receives.”
but he was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet.
“As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. So be ardent and repent.