Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 6:1

"O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure." — Psalms 6:1 (ASV)

O Lord, rebuke me not. —Repeated with change of one word in Psalm 38:1. The sublime thought that pain and sorrow are a discipline of love might be found in these words (Proverbs 3:11–12; Jeremiah 10:24; Hebrews 12:3, 11; Revelation 3:19), were it not that the context shows that the sufferer in this case is praying for the chastisement to be altogether removed.