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.
Ver. 11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity] Or shouldest thou but correct him according to his iniquity; correct him, I say, or instruct him. Kimchi's note here is, Morbi sunt interpretes inter Deum et homines increpantes, ut Job 33:19. Diseases are God's chiding messages or real rebukes.
Thou makest his beauty] Heb. whatsoever in him is desirable, all his prime and pride, pulchritudinem et praestantiam, his beauty and bravery, as that of Jonah's gourd.
To consume away like a moth] Heb. To melt away as a moth, which is easily crushed between one's fingers, Job 4:19; or actively, as a moth, caeco morsu, doth secretly and suddenly consume the most precious garment, so dost thou the wicked by thy secret curse, though themselves or others little observe it. Quamvis non palam fulminet e caelo Deus (Vat.).
Surely every man is vanity. Selah] See Psalms 39:5 .