Psalms 39:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

man. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14. See note on "moth", below.

moth. Hebrew. 'ash. Forming the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6), connecting man (' ish) with. moth ('ash).

Selah. Connecting human vanity with an abiding reality and. divinely provided resource prayer, and hope in Jehovah. See App-66.

Psalms 39:11

11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.