| 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. |
| 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 frail I 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. |
