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Chapter 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. |
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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, |
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LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days,
what it is: that I may know how frail I am. |
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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.
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| 13 | O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no
more. |
