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Psalms 39:11

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

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ASV

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

KJV

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.

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹתbe.to.Kha.chotwith rebukesH8433 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
עָוֹ֨ן׀'a.VoniniquityH5771 →
יִסַּ֬רְתָּyi.Sar.tayou have disciplinedH3256 →
אִ֗ישׁ'Isha personH376 →
וַתֶּ֣מֶסva.Te.mesand you have meltedH4529 →
כָּעָ֣שׁka.'Ashlike <the> mothH6211 →
חֲמוּד֑וֹcha.mu.Dodesired [thing] hisH2530 →
אַ֤ךְ'akh[is] onlyH389 →
הֶ֖בֶלHe.velvanityH1892 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
אָדָ֣ם'a.DamhumankindH120 →
סֶֽלָה׃Se.lahSelahH5542 →

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Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. SelahPsalms 80:16Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.Hebrews 12:6For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”Isaiah 50:9Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.1 Corinthians 11:30–32That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.Revelation 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.Psalms 31:10For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.Job 4:21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’1 Corinthians 5:5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.Psalms 102:10–11because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.Job 22:4Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?2 Peter 2:16But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.Psalms 38:1–8O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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