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| [1]I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence. |
[1]I thought, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth bridled, while the wicked is in my sight. |
| [2]I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; and my grief was renewed. |
[2]I was dumb and spake nothing: I kept silence even from good, and my sorrow was more stirred. |
| [3]My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue, |
[3]Mine heart was hot within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindled, and I spake with my tongue, saying, |
| [4]O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack. |
[4]Lord, let me know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: let me know how long I have to live. |
| [5]Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause. |
[5]Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely every man in his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. |
| [6]Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them. |
[6]Doubtless man walketh in a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. |
| [7]And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with thee. Pause. |
[7]And now Lord, what wait I for? Mine hope is even in thee. |
| [8]Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish. |
[8]Deliver me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. |
| [9]I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me. |
[9]I should have been dumb, and not have opened my mouth, because thou didst it. |
| [10]Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thine hand. |
[10]Take thy plague away from me: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand. |
| [11]Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause. |
[11]When thou with rebukes dost chastise man for iniquity, thou as a moth makest his beauty to consume: surely every man is vanity. Selah. |
| [12]O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were. |
[12]Hear my prayer, O Lord, and hearken unto my cry: keep not silence at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers. |
| [13]Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more. |
[13]Stay thine anger from me, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence and be not. |