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Psa. 39:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest ψhis beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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that which is to be desired in him to melt away.

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Psa. 38:1‑8• ¹A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
²For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.
⁴For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
⁵My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.
⁶I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.
⁷For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart. (Psa. 38:1‑8)

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Psa. 90:7‑10• ⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
⁹For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.
¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:7‑10)

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1 Cor. 5:5• ⁵to deliver him, I say, being such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (1 Cor. 5:5)

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1 Cor. 11:30‑32• ³⁰On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.
³¹But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.
³²But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. (1 Cor. 11:30‑32)

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Heb. 12:6• ⁶for whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives. (Heb. 12:6)

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Rev. 3:19• ¹⁹I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous therefore and repent. (Rev. 3:19)

his beauty, etc.

Heb. that which is to be desired in him tomelt away.

Psa. 102:10‑11• ¹⁰Because of thine indignation and thy wrath; for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
¹¹My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass. (Psa. 102:10‑11)

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Job 4:19• ¹⁹How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth! (Job 4:19)

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Job 13:28• ²⁸One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth. (Job 13:28)

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Job 30:30• ³⁰My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat. (Job 30:30)

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Isa. 50:9• ⁹Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. (Isa. 50:9)

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Hos. 5:12• ¹²And I will be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. (Hos. 5:12)

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Psa. 39:5• ⁵Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah. (Psa. 39:5)

• He dare not defend himself for the Lord had sent the stroke. He who sent it can alone remove it. (“Psalms 39” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume awayd like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.

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Lit. "melt."