Psalms 39:11 meaning and explanation
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Psalms 39:11, Berean Standard Bible
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David continues his prayer to the LORD from the anguish described earlier in the psalm. He names God's discipline as the response to human iniquity, and the image is striking: a moth consumes cloth quietly and gradually, and in the same way what a person treasures wears away.
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