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11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty{H8803)} to consume away{H8686)} like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. …
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)The psalmist, having meditated on the shortness and uncertainty of life, and the vanity and vexation of spirit that attend all the comforts of life, here, in these verses, turns his eyes and heart heaven-ward. When there is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature it is to be found in God, and in communion with him; and to him we should be driven by our disappointments in the world. David h…
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