O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
The verse is a prayer in which the speaker looks to God alone for correction and asks to be corrected by Him. The correction requested is to be measured by judgment, proportioned and restrained rather than unrestrained. What is pleaded against is correction in anger, whose severity would crush rather than restore. Left to such anger, the outcome would be to be brought to nothing, utterly undone instead of reformed.
The verse is a prayer in which the speaker looks to God alone for correction and asks to be corrected by Him. The correction requested is to be measured by judgment, proportioned and restrained rather than unrestrained. What is pleaded against is correction in anger, whose severity would crush rather than restore. Left to such anger, the outcome would be to be brought to nothing, utterly undone instead of reformed.