1 I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue.

I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

2 I was mute with silence.

I held my peace, even from good.

My sorrow was stirred.

3 My heart was hot within me.

While I meditated, the fire burned.

I spoke with my tongue:

4 "Yahweh, show me my end,

what is the measure of my days.

Let me know how frail I am.

5 Behold, you have made my days hand widths.

My lifetime is as nothing before you.

Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow.

Surely they busy themselves in vain.

He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

7 Now, Lord, what do I wait for?

My hope is in you.

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions.

Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

9 I was mute.

I didn’t open my mouth,

because you did it.

10 Remove your scourge away from me.

I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity,

you consume his wealth like a moth.

Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.

Don’t be silent at my tears.

For I am a stranger with you,

a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,

before I go away and exist no more."

1 To the Overcomer, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bit while the wicked is against 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] I spoke with my tongue,

4 LORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it [is that] I may know how long I am to be of this world.

5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] a handbreadth, and my age [is] as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

6 Surely man walks in darkness; surely they are disquieted in vain; they heap up [riches] not knowing who shall gather them.

7 And now, Lord, what shall I wait for? My hope [is] in thee.

8 Deliver me from all my rebellions; do not make me 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 chastening dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his greatness 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 from here and be no more.: