Parallel Verses
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 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.
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
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.
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 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death! 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah) 12 Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.
Cross References
Job 13:28
So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
Isaiah 50:9
Look, the sovereign Lord helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.
Job 4:19
how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
Job 30:30
My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.
Psalm 38:1-8
A psalm of David, written to get God's attention. O Lord, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger! Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury!
Psalm 90:7-10
Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.
Psalm 102:10-11
because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.
Hosea 5:12
I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.
1 Corinthians 5:5
turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.
Hebrews 12:6
"For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts."
2 Peter 2:16
yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet's madness).
Revelation 3:19
All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!