39:1  To the chief Musician, [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 bridle, while the wicked
is before me.
 39:2  I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from
good; and my sorrow was stirred.
 39:3  My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire
burned: [then] spake I with my tongue,
 39:4  LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my
days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].
 39:5  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.
 39:6  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.
 39:7  And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
 39:8  Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the
reproach of the foolish.
 39:9  I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst
[it].
 39:10  Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the
blow of thine hand.
 39:11  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.
 39:12  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].
 39:13  O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go
hence, and be no more.