Psalm 39:11
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
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

Young's Literal Translation
With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
You discipline
יִסַּ֬רְתָּ (yis·sar·tā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3256: To discipline, chasten, admonish

and correct
בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת (bə·ṯō·w·ḵā·ḥō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8433: Chastisement, correction, refutation, proof

a man
אִ֗ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

for
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

his iniquity,
עָוֺ֨ן ׀ (‘ā·wōn)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity

consuming
וַתֶּ֣מֶס (wat·te·mes)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 4529: To melt, dissolve, be liquefied

like a moth
כָּעָ֣שׁ (kā·‘āš)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6211: A moth

what he holds dear;
חֲמוּד֑וֹ (ḥă·mū·ḏōw)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2530: To desire, take pleasure in

surely
אַ֤ךְ (’aḵ)
Adverb
Strong's 389: A particle of affirmation, surely

each
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

man
אָדָ֣ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

[is] but a vapor.
הֶ֖בֶל (he·ḇel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory

Selah
סֶֽלָה׃ (se·lāh)
Interjection
Strong's 5542: Suspension, pause

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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