Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
[When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah
New American Standard Bible
You
Surely
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
consuming like a moth what is precious to him;
every man is only a vapor.
International Standard Version
You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude
A Conservative Version
When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
American Standard Version
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
Amplified
“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;
You consume like a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.
Bible in Basic English
By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.
King James 2000
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Modern King James verseion
You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.
NET Bible
You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
When, by rebukes for iniquity, thou hast corrected a man, Then hast thou consumed, as a moth, all that was delightful within him, Surely, a breath, are all men. Selah.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.
Themes
Emptiness » Emptiness or vanity of the worldly life (ps 3911; 629)
Man » God » Makes his beauty consume away
Reproof » When from God » Is for correction
Seven » Uncertainties » Beauty
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 39:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fleeting Nature Of Life
10 Remove from me your affliction. By the opposition of your hand I perish. 11 [When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah 12 Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.
Cross References
Job 13:28
And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.
Isaiah 50:9
Look! The Lord Yahweh helps me. Who is the one who will declare me guilty? Look! All of them will be worn out like a garment; [the] moth will eat them.
Job 4:19
How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.
Job 30:30
My skin turns black on me, and my bones burn with heat.
Psalm 38:1-8
O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath.
Psalm 90:7-10
For we are brought to an end by your anger, and we hasten [off] by your wrath.
Psalm 102:10-11
because of your indignation and anger, for you have picked me up and thrown me away.
Hosea 5:12
But I [am] like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.
1 Corinthians 5:5
[I have decided] to hand over such a person to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
Because of this, many [are] weak and sick among you, and quite a few {have died}.
Hebrews 12:6
For the Lord disciplines the one whom he loves, and punishes every son whom he accepts."
2 Peter 2:16
but received a rebuke for his own lawlessness: a speechless donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained {the prophet's madness}.
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. Be zealous, therefore, and repent!