Verse 11

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)

Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:28 : 28 So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
  • Isa 50:9 : 9 Look, the Sovereign LORD helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 The Curse of the Incurable Wound I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.
  • 1 Cor 5:5 : 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 11:30-32 : 30 That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead. 31 But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.
  • Heb 12:6 : 6 “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”
  • 2 Pet 2:16 : 16 yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.
  • Ps 38:1-8 : 1 A psalm of David, written to get God’s attention. O LORD, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger! Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury! 2 For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down. 3 My whole body is sick because of your judgment; I am deprived of health because of my sin. 4 For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear. 5 My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins. 6 I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning. 7 For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick. 8 I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath. 8 You are aware of our sins; you even know about our hidden sins. 9 Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh. 10 The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.
  • Ps 102:10-11 : 10 because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away. 11 My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?