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| 39:1 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 39:1 | To the chaunter Ieduthun, a Psalme of Dauid. I sayde: I will take hede to my wayes that I offend not in my tonge. |
| 39:2 | I will kepe my mouth (as it were wt a brile) while the vngodly is in my sight. |
| 39:3 | I helde my tonge, & spake nothinge, I kepte sylence yee, euen from good wordes, but it was payne & grefe to me. |
| 39:4 | My hert was hote within me, & whyle I was thus musyng, the fyre kyndled: and (at the last) I spake wyth my tonge: |
| 39:5 | Lorde, let me knowe myne ende, and the nombre of my dayes: that I maye be certyfied howe longe I haue to lyue. |
| 39:6 | Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as it were a spanne longe, and myne age is euen as nothing in respecte of the: & verely euery man lyuing is all together vanite. Selah. |
| 39:7 | For man walketh in a vayne shadowe, and disquieteth him self in vayne: he heapeth vp riches & cannot tell who shall gather them. |
| 39:8 | And now Lord, what is my hope? trulye my hope is euen in the. |
| 39:9 | Delyuer me from all myne offences, & make me not a rebuke vnto the foolish. |
| 39:10 | I became domme, & opened not my mouth, for it was thy doynge. Take thy plage awaye fro me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heuye hand. |
| 39:11 | When thou wyth rebukes dost chasten man for sinne, thou makest his bewtye to consume awaye, like as it were a mothe fretinge a garment. Euery man therfore is but vanite. Selah. |
| 39:12 | Heare my prayer, O Lord, & wt thyne eares consydre my callynge: holde not thy peace at my teares. For I am a straunger wt the, & a sogeourner, as all my fathers were. |
| 39:13 | Oh spare me a lytle, that I maye recouer my strength, before I goo hence, and be nomore sene. |
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