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Salmos 39:11
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Con castigos sobre el pecado corriges al hombre, Y haces consumirse como de polilla su grandeza: Ciertamente vanidad es todo hombre. (Selah.)
Con castigos sobre el pecado corriges al hombre, y haces consumirse como de polilla su grandeza: Ciertamente vanidad es todo hombre. (Selah)
Con castigos sobre el pecado corriges al hombre, y haces consumirse como de polilla su grandeza; ciertamente vanidad es todo hombre. (Selah.)
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
When: Psalms 38:1-8, Psalms 90:7-10, 1 Corinthians 5:5, 1 Corinthians 11:30-32, Hebrews 12:6, Revelation 3:19
his beauty: etc. Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away, Psalms 102:10, Psalms 102:11, Job 4:19, Job 13:28, Job 30:30, Isaiah 50:9, Hosea 5:12
surely: Psalms 39:5
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:3 - This day Job 4:21 - excellency Job 7:8 - thine eyes Job 9:25 - they flee away Job 22:4 - reprove Job 33:21 - His flesh Psalms 32:4 - hand Psalms 38:2 - thy hand Psalms 49:14 - their Psalms 62:9 - Surely Psalms 80:16 - perish Acts 13:11 - hand James 5:2 - your garments
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,.... The psalmist illustrates his own case, before suggested, by the common case and condition of men, when God corrects them; which he has a right to do, as the Father of spirits, and which he does with rebukes; sometimes with rebukes of wrath, with furious rebukes, rebukes in flames of fire, as the men of the world; and sometimes with rebukes of love, the chastenings of a father, as his own dear children; and always for iniquity, whether one or another; and not the iniquity of Adam is here meant, but personal iniquity: and correction for it is to be understood of some bodily affliction, as the effect of it shows;
thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth; that is, secretly, suddenly, and at once; as a moth eats a garment, and takes off the beauty of it; or as easily as a moth is crushed between a man's fingers; so the Targum;
"he melts away as a moth, whose body is broken:''
the Vulgate Latin, Septuagint, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions, and so the metaphrase of Apollinarius, read, as a spider which destroys itself. The word rendered "beauty" takes in all that is desirable in man; as his flesh, his strength, his comeliness, his pleasantness of countenance, c. all which are quickly destroyed by a distemper of the body seizing on it wherefore the psalmist makes and confirms the conclusion he had made before:
surely every man [is] vanity; :-;
Selah; on this word, :-.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
When thou with rebukes - The word here rendered “rebukes” means properly:
(a) proof or demonstration;
(b) confutation or contradiction;
(c) reproof or admonition by words;
(d) reproof by correction or punishment.
This is the meaning here. The idea of the psalmist is, that God, by punishment or calamity, expresses his sense of the evil of human conduct; and that, under such an expression of it, man, being unable to sustain it, melts away or is destroyed.
Dost correct man for iniquity - Dost punish man for his sin; or dost express thy sense of the evil of sin by the calamities which are brought upon him.
Thou makest his beauty - Margin: “That which is to be desired in him.” The Hebrew means “desired, delighted in;” then, something desirable, pleasant; a delight. Its meaning is not confined to “beauty.” It refers to anything that is to man an object of desire or delight - strength, beauty, possessions, life itself. All are made to fade away before the expressions of the divine displeasure.
To consume away like a moth - Not as a moth is consumed, but as a moth consumes or destroys valuable objects, such as clothing. See the notes at Job 4:19. The beauty, the vigor, the strength of man is marred and destroyed, as the texture of cloth is by the moth.
Surely every man is vanity - That is, he is seen to be vanity - to have no strength, no permanency - by the ease with which God takes away all on which he had prided himself. See the notes at Psalms 39:5.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 39:11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man — תוכחות tochachoth signifies a vindication of proceedings in a court of law, a legal defence. When God comes to maintain the credit and authority of his law against a sinner, he "causes his beauty to consume away:" a metaphor taken from the case of a culprit, who, by the arguments of counsel, and the unimpeachable evidence of witnesses, has the facts all proved against him, grows pale, looks terrified; his fortitude forsakes him, and he faints in court.
Surely every man is vanity. — He is incapable of resistance; he falls before his Maker; and none can deliver him but his Sovereign and Judge, against whom he has offended.
Selah. — This is a true saying, an everlasting truth.
