Psalms 39:11
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. 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.
The rebuke that makes beauty consume away like a moth belongs to one wasted by sickness and pain, smitten and faint until he feels he may never rise again. When flesh is thus consumed by affliction, the affliction is divine correction for iniquity, for practices out of harmony with the laws of human life. God corrects by rebukes and by the consequences of wrongdoing itself, measuring the suffering and limiting it to what is needed to lead the person away from evil.
The stroke is administered in love and mercy to awaken the sufferer to the danger of continuing in the wrong course. God first seeks correction through long-suffering and mercy, and turns to judgment and justice only when these have failed. This correction reveals His love and is meant to lead to repentance, so that when the person recognizes and repents of the wrong, Christ assumes the consequences of the bad course.
Psalm 39 is a prophetic word picture in which David foresaw and felt Christ's life-and-death struggles. It thus reveals Christ's inner experience when He suffered and was tempted.