“When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 39 contains 13 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.