Psalms 39:11

World English Bible (2000)

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:28 : 28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
  • Isa 50:9 : 9 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
  • 1 Cor 5:5 : 5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  • 1 Cor 11:30-32 : 30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. 31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
  • Heb 12:6 : 6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."
  • 2 Pet 2:16 : 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
  • Ps 38:1-8 : 1 Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. 2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. 7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
  • Ps 102:10-11 : 10 Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away. 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

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    4 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

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    3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

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    2 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

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    45 You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

    46 How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

    47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

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    2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

  • 11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

  • 28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • 16 It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

  • 11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • 15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

  • 24 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

  • 9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

  • 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

  • 39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

  • 3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

  • 8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

  • 41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • 6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"

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    10 "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

    11 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

  • 12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • 11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

  • 12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

  • 17 "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

  • 21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

  • 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • 3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

  • 24 "Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung.

  • 5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

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    8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

    9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

    10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

  • 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

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    4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

    5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

  • 30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.

  • 1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

  • 10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

  • 1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.