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OET (OET-RV) When you discipline people for disobedience,
⇔ like a moth, you consume the things they value.
⇔ Surely all people are nothing but vapour. (Instrumental break.)![]()
OET-LV (PSA 39:12) [fn] with_rebukes on iniquity you_have_disciplined a_person and_you_have_melted like_moth his_desired_of_thing is_only vanity all_of humankind Şelāh.
_C39.htm#C39V11">39:12 Note: KJB: Ps.39.11![]()
UHB 12 בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת עַל־עָוֺ֨ן ׀ יִסַּ֬רְתָּ אִ֗ישׁ וַתֶּ֣מֶס כָּעָ֣שׁ חֲמוּד֑וֹ אַ֤ךְ הֶ֖בֶל כָּל־אָדָ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃ ‡
(12 bətōkāḩōt ˊal-ˊāvōn yişşartā ʼiysh vattemeş kāˊāsh ḩₐmūdō ʼak heⱱel kāl-ʼādām şelāh.)
Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
BrLXX (PSA 38:12) Ἐν ἐλεγμοῖς ὑπὲρ ἀνομίας ἐπαίδευσας ἄνθρωπον· καὶ ἐξέτηξας ὡς ἀράχνην τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ, πλὴν μάτην ταράσσεται πᾶς ἄνθρωπος· διάψαλμα.
(En elegmois huper anomias epaideusas anthrōpon; kai exetaʸxas hōs araⱪnaʸn taʸn psuⱪaʸn autou, plaʸn mataʸn tarassetai pas anthrōpos; diapsalma.)
BrTr (PSA 38:12) Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web: nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.
ULT With rebukes on account of iniquity you discipline a man,
⇔ and you dissolve like a moth his desired thing.
⇔ Surely all mankind, is vapor. Selah
UST When you correct a person for the wrong things that he has done,
⇔ you destroy what he treasures, just as moths destroy clothing.
⇔ Truly, every person lives only a very short time. Selah
BSB & MSB You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity,
⇔ consuming like a moth what he holds dear;
⇔ surely each man [is] but a vapor. Selah
OEB When you rebuke someone to punish their sins,
⇔ you consume, like a moth, what they tresure.
⇔ Everyone is only a breath. Selah
WEBBE & WMBB When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity,
⇔ you consume his wealth like a moth.
⇔ Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
NET You severely discipline people for their sins;
⇔ like a moth you slowly devour their strength.
⇔ Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)
LSV With reproofs against iniquity,
You have corrected man,
And dissolve his desirableness as a moth,
Only, every man [is] vanity. Selah.
FBV When you discipline us, reprimanding us for our sins, it's like a moth eating up what is precious to us. All of us are just a breath… Selah.
T4T When you rebuke someone and punish him for the sin that he has committed,
⇔ you destroy the things that ◄he loves/are precious to him►, like moths’ larva destroy clothing.
⇔ Our lives disappear like a puff of wind.
⇔ (Think about that!)
LEB •
When with rebukes you chastise a man for sin,
•
you[fn] consume[fn] like a moth his delightful things.
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Surely everyone is a mere vapor.[fn] Selah
39:? Hebrew “and/then you”
39:? Literally “cause to melt”
39:? The word translated “vanity” in vv. 6, 7
BBE By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Moff Thou chastenest mortal man,
⇔ in punishing his guilt,
⇔ eating away his comeliness like a moth—
⇔ man is no better than an empty breath!
JPS (PSA 39:12) (39-13) Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; keep not silence at my tears; for I am a stranger with Thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
ASV 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
DRA (PSA 38:12) Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.
YLT With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.
Drby When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.
RV 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
(When thou/you with rebukes dost/do correct man for iniquity, thou/you makest/make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah)
SLT With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.
Wbstr 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.
KJB-1769 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.[fn]
(When thou/you with rebukes dost/do correct man for iniquity, thou/you makest/make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.)
39.11 his…: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away
KJB-1611 When thou with rebukes doest correct man for iniquitie, thou makest [fn]his beautie to consume away like a moth: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)
39:11 Heb. that which is to be desired in him, to melt away.
Bshps Thou doest chasten man, rebukyng him for sinne: thou as a moth doest consume his excellencie, for in very deede euery man is but vanitie. Selah.
(Thou/You dost/do chasten man, rebuking him for sin: thou/you as a moth dost/do consume his excellency, for in very deed every man is but vanity. Selah.)
Gnva When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.
(When thou/you with rebukes dost/do chastise man for iniquity, thou/you as a moth makest/make his beauty to consume: surely every man is vanity. Selah.)
Cvdl When thou punyshest man for synne, thou chastenest him: so that his beutie consumeth awaye, like as it were a mothe. O how vayne are all men?
(When thou/you punishest man for sin, thou/you chastenest him: so that his beauty consumeth away, like as it were a moth. Oh how vain are all men?)
Wycl (PSA 38:12) Fro the strengthe of thin hond Y failide in blamyngis; for wickidnesse thou hast chastisid man. And thou madist his lijf to faile as an yreyne; netheles ech man is disturblid in veyn.
(From the strength of thin hand I failed in reproofs; for wickedness thou/you hast chastised man. And thou/you made his life to fail as an spider; nevertheless each man is disturbed in vain.)
Luth (PSA 39:12) Wenn du einen züchtigest um der Sünde willen, so wird seine Schöne verzehret wie von Motten. Ach, wie gar nichts sind doch alle Menschen! Sela.
(If/When you(sg) a chastisest around/by/for the/of_the sin(n) will(v), so becomes his beauty consumed as/like from moths. Oh_dear, as/like even nothing are though/but all people! Sela.)
ClVg (PSA 38:12) A fortitudine manus tuæ ego defeci in increpationibus: propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem. Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam ejus: verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.[fn]
(From with_courage hands yours I I_failed in/into/on reprimands: because iniquity you_rebuked man. And to_fade_away you_did like spider the_soul his/her: nevertheless vane is_disturbed everyone man.)
38.12 Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam. ID. Siccatam ab amore virtutum, et cognitionis. Sicut aranea texit inanem telam in congregatione temporalium. Vel, dum extrahit a se iniquitatem sicut aranea, egestione viscerum moritur. CASS. Vel, aranea tenue corpus hahet, nec in terra, sed in alto stat, telas egestione viscerum texit: sic anima conversi et afflicti terrena deserit, subtiles operationes timore Dei tabeficata perficit. Verumtamen. AUG., CASS. Licet increpetur, licet tabefiant, tamen humana infirmitate variis rebus confunditur, nisi qui Deum pura mente contemplatur.
38.12 And to_fade_away you_did like spider the_soul. ID. Dried away with_love virtues, and knowledge. Like spider covered empty web in/into/on congregation temporal. Or, while extracts from himself iniquity like spider, casting_out of_entrails he_dies. CASS. Or, spider thin body has, but_not in/into/on earth/land, but in/into/on high stands, webs casting_out of_entrails covered: so the_soul converted and afflicted earthly abandons, subtle operations with_fear of_God wasted_away completes. Nevertheless. AUG., CASS. It’s_possible may_be_rebuked, although they_may_be_melted, nevertheless human weakness various things is_confused, except who/which God pure mind is_contemplated.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת
(Some words not found in UHB: with,rebukes on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in sin discipline (a)_man and,you_have_melted like,moth his_desired_of,[thing] surely Abel all/each/any/every humankind selah )
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of rebukes, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [By rebuking a man]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
עַל־עָוֺ֨ן
on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in sin
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of iniquity, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [for the sinful things he has done]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun
יִסַּ֬רְתָּ אִ֗ישׁ
(Some words not found in UHB: with,rebukes on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in sin discipline (a)_man and,you_have_melted like,moth his_desired_of,[thing] surely Abel all/each/any/every humankind selah )
David is not referring to a specific man. He means people in general. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could use an expression that would be more natural in your language. Alternate translation: [you discipline a person]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
וַתֶּ֣מֶס כָּעָ֣שׁ חֲמוּד֑וֹ
(Some words not found in UHB: with,rebukes on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in sin discipline (a)_man and,you_have_melted like,moth his_desired_of,[thing] surely Abel all/each/any/every humankind selah )
The point of this comparison is that just as a moth gradually destroys clothing, so Yahweh destroys what a person treasures. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this point explicitly. Alternate translation: [and like a moth destroys clothing, you dissolve the things he desires]
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
אַ֤ךְ הֶ֖בֶל כָּל־אָדָ֣ם
surely Abel (Some words not found in UHB: with,rebukes on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in sin discipline (a)_man and,you_have_melted like,moth his_desired_of,[thing] surely Abel all/each/any/every humankind selah )
David is speaking of all human existence as if it were vapor that quickly disappears. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. See how you translated the similar phrase “every man stands as all vapor” in [verse 5](../039/005.md). Alternate translation: [Surely all mankind lives but a short time]