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Psalm 39:11 (WEB)
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

Fathers and councils · 6

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions II.1Book II
“For I even longed in my youth formerly to be satisfied with worldly things, and I dared to grow wild again with various and shadowy loves; my form consumed away, and I became corrupt in Thine eyes, pleasing myself, and eager to please in the eyes of men.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions XIII.12Book XIII
“For Thou correctest man for iniquity, and “Thy judgments are a great deep.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 39
““Thou with rebukes hast chastened man for iniquity; Thou hast made my life to consume away like a spider” (ver. 11).” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on John Homily 64
“Of a truth well said the Prophet, “Verily, every man living disquieteth himself in vain” ( Ps. xxxix. 11 , LXX.); for anxiety about such things is indeed disquiet, disquiet and superfluous trouble.” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 20
““Night was around me and I knew it not, for I thought that my luxury was enlightenment.”” — editor's note: A strange paraphrase of the last clause of Ps. cxxxix. 11, in the LXX., “And I said, then the darkness shall swallow me, and night is enlightenment in my…
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 21
“And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts…
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