I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not
with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the
wicked is before me.
39:2
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good;
and my sorrow was stirred.
39:3
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire
burned: [then] spake I with my tongue,
39:4
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days,
what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].
39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and
mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his
best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who
shall gather them.
39:7
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
39:8
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the
reproach of the foolish.
39:9
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].
39:10
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow
of thine hand.
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.
39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not
thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a
sojourner, as all my fathers [were].
39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go
hence, and be no more.
