🎵WEB · Psalms 39:11
What does Psalms 39:11 mean?
"When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah."
— Psalms 39:11 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
“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.
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”
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