When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
Behold, the Lord God helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down. My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
But I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.
For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh. The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath! For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me. There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,
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