(1) 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. (2) I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred (3) My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] spake I with my tongue, (4) LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days , what it [is; that] I may know how frailI [am] (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 (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. (7) And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee. (8) Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. (9) I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it.] (10) Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand (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 (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.] (13) O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence , and be no more.
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