1 我曾说： "我要谨慎我的行为， 不让我的舌头犯罪； 恶人在我面前的时候， 我总要用罩子约束我的嘴。"

2 我静默不出声， 甚至连好话也不说（"甚至连好话也不说"或译： "我安静也得不到安慰"）， 我的痛苦就更加剧烈。

3 我的心在我里面发热； 我默想的时候， 心里火烧； 我就用舌头说话：

4 "耶和华啊！ 求你使我知道我的结局， 我的寿数有多少， 使我知道我的生命多么短促。

5 你使我的日子窄如手掌， 我的一生在你面前如同无有； 各人站得最稳的时候， 也只不过是一口气。（细拉）

6 世人来来往往只是幻影， 他们忙乱也是虚空； 积聚财物， 却不知道谁要来收取。

7 主啊！ 现在我还等候什么呢？我的指望在乎你。

8 求你救我脱离我的一切过犯， 不要使我遭受愚顽人的羞辱。

9 因为是你作了这事， 我就静默不开口。

10 求你除掉你降在我身上的灾祸； 因你手的责打， 我就消灭。

11 你因人的罪孽， 借着责罚管教他们， 叫他们所宝贵的消失， 像被虫蛀蚀； 世人都不过是一口气。（细拉）

12 耶和华啊！ 求你垂听我的祷告， 留心听我的呼求； 我流泪， 求你不要缄默； 因为我在你面前是客旅， 是寄居的， 像我所有的祖先一样。

13 求你不要怒视我， 使我在去而不返之先， 可以喜乐。"

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 Jehovah, make me to know mine end,

And the measure of my days, what it is;

Let me know how frail I am.

5 Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths;

And my life-time is as nothing before thee:

Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show;

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 thy 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 Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry;

Hold not thy peace at my tears:

For I am a stranger with thee,

A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,

Before I go hence, and be no more.