Parallel Verses
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
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.
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)
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 Stop scourging me, since I have been crushed by your heavy hand. 11 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 12 Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were.
Cross References
Job 13:28
So I'm a man who wears out like something rotten, like a garment that has become moth-eaten."
Isaiah 50:9
See! It is the Lord GOD who will help me. Who is it that will declare me guilty? See! They will all wear out like a garment; moths will eat them up.
Job 4:19
how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?
Job 30:30
My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat.
Psalm 38:1-8
LORD! Do not rebuke me in your anger; do not correct me in your wrath,
Psalm 90:7-10
Indeed, we are consumed by your anger and terrified by your wrath.
Psalm 102:10-11
because of your indignation and wrath, when you lifted and threw me away.
Hosea 5:12
Therefore I will consume Ephraim like a moth, and the house of Judah as rottenness consumes.
1 Corinthians 5:5
turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
That's why so many of you are weak and sick and a considerable number are dying.
Hebrews 12:6
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he punishes every son he accepts."
2 Peter 2:16
But he was rebuked for his offense. A donkey that normally cannot talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's insanity.
Revelation 3:19
I correct and discipline those whom I love, so be serious and repent!