Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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)
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 your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand. 11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah. 12 "Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Cross References
Job 13:28
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Isaiah 50:9
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Job 4:19
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.
Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
Psalm 38:1-8
LORD, do not rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
Psalm 90:7-10
For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
Psalm 102:10-11
Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.
Hosea 5:12
Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
1 Corinthians 5:5
are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
Hebrews 12:6
For whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and scourges every son whom he receives."
2 Peter 2:16
but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.