Psalms 39:10-11

39:10 Please stop wounding me! ¹ 

You have almost beaten me to death! ² 

39:11 You severely discipline people for their sins; ³ 

like a moth you slowly devour their strength. ⁴ 

Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

[39:10]  ¹ tn Heb “remove from upon me your wound.”

[39:10]  ² tn Heb “from the hostility of your hand I have come to an end.”

[39:11]  ³ tn “with punishments on account of sin you discipline a man.”

[39:11]  ⁴ tc Heb “you cause to dissolve, like a moth, his desired [thing].” The translation assumes an emendation of חֲמוּדוֹ (khamudo, “his desirable [thing]”) to חֶמְדוֹ (khemdo, “his loveliness” [or “beauty”]), a reading that is supported by a few medieval Hebrew mss.