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{To the chief Musician, 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 muzzle, while the wicked is before me.
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I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
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Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
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Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.
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Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish.
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I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for *thou* hast done [it].