Psalms 39:11

“When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, etc.] The psalmist illustrates his own case, before suggested, by the common case and condition of men, when God corrects them; which he has a right to do, as the Father of spirits, and which he does with rebukes; sometimes with rebukes of wrath, with furious rebukes, rebukes in flames of fire, as the men of the world; and sometimes with rebukes of love, the chastenings of a father, as his own dear children; and always for iniquity, whether one or another; and not the iniquity of Adam is here meant, but personal iniquity: and correction for it is to be understood of some bodily affliction, as the effect of it shows; thou makest his beauty…”

“From his own case, he argues to that of all, that the destruction of man's enjoyments is ascribable to sin.”

“When thou with rebukes - The word here rendered “rebukes” means properly: (a) proof or demonstration; (b) confutation or contradiction; (c) reproof or admonition by words; (d) reproof by correction or punishment. This is the meaning here. The idea of the psalmist is, that God, by punishment or calamity, expresses his sense of the evil of human conduct; and that, under such an expression of it, man, being unable to sustain it, melts away or is destroyed. Dost correct man for iniquity - Dost punish man for his sin; or dost express thy sense of the evil of sin by the calamities which are brought upon him. Thou makest his beauty - Margin: “That which is to be desired in him.” The Hebrew means…”

“Beauty - His comeliness and all his excellencies or felicities. Moth - As a moth consumeth a garment, to which God compares himself and his judgments, secretly and insensibly consuming a people, Isa 51:8. Psalms 39:12”

“39:11 The Lord uses discipline to correct his children (38:1, 3, 7; 40:12; see Prov 3:11-12; Heb 12:5-6).”

“When: Psa 38:1-8, Psa 90:7-10; Co1 5:5, Co1 11:30-32; Heb 12:6; Rev 3:19 his beauty: etc. Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away, Psa 102:10, Psa 102:11; Job 4:19, Job 13:28, Job 30:30; Isa 50:9; Hos 5:12 surely: Psa 39:5 Psalms 39:12”