SEV Biblia, Chapter 39:11
Con castigos sobre el pecado corriges al hombre, y haces consumirse como de polilla su grandeza; ciertamente vanidad es todo hombre. (Selah.)
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 38:11
Verse 11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man ] twjkwt tochachoth signifies a vindication of proceedings in a court of law, a legal defense. When God comes to maintain the credit and authority of his law against a sinner, he "causes his beauty to consume away:" a metaphor taken from the case of a culprit, who, by the arguments of counsel, and the unimpeachable evidence of witnesses, has the facts all proved against him, grows pale, looks terrified; his fortitude forsakes him, and he faints in court. Surely every man is vanity. ] He is incapable of resistance; he falls before his Maker; and none can deliver him but his Sovereign and Judge, against whom he has offended.
Selah. ] This is a true saying, an everlasting truth.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-13 - There is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature; but it is to be found in the Lord, and in communion with him; to him we should be driven by our disappointments. If the world be nothing but vanity, ma God deliver us from having or seeking our portion in it. When creature-confidences fail, it is our comfort that we have a God to go to, a God to trust in. We may see a good God doing all, and orderin all events concerning us; and a good man, for that reason, says nothin against it. He desires the pardoning of his sin, and the preventing of his shame. We must both watch and pray against sin. When under the correcting hand of the Lord, we must look to God himself for relief not to any other. Our ways and our doings bring us into trouble, and we are beaten with a rod of our own making. What a poor thing is beauty and what fools are those that are proud of it, when it will certainly and may quickly, be consumed! The body of man is as a garment to the soul. In this garment sin has lodged a moth, which wears away, firs the beauty, then the strength, and finally the substance of its parts Whoever has watched the progress of a lingering distemper, or the wor of time alone, in the human frame, will feel at once the force of thi comparison, and that, surely every man is vanity. Afflictions are sen to stir up prayer. If they have that effect, we may hope that God wil hear our prayer. The believer expects weariness and ill treatment of his way to heaven; but he shall not stay here long : walking with God by faith, he goes forward on his journey, not diverted from his course nor cast down by the difficulties he meets. How blessed it is to sin loose from things here below, that while going home to our Father' house, we may use the world as not abusing it! May we always look for that city, whose Builder and Maker is God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
בתוכחות 8433 על 5921 עון 5771 יסרת 3256 אישׁ 376 ותמס 4529 כעשׁ 6211 חמודו 2530 אך 389 הבל 1892 כל 3605 אדם 120 סלה׃ 5542
