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1 I said, “I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin; I will put a muzzle on my mouth while in the presence of the wicked.”
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To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked [is] before me.'
2 So I remained utterly silent, not even saying anything good. But my anguish increased;
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I was dumb [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
3 my heart grew hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
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Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
4 “Show me, LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.
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`Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it [is],' I know how frail I [am].
5 You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.
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Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. Selah.
6 “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.
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Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
7 “But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.
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And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it [is] of Thee.
8 Save me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.
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From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
9 I was silent; I would not open my mouth, for you are the one who has done this.
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I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done [it].
10 Remove your scourge from me; I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
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Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
11 When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth— surely everyone is but a breath.
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With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.
12 “Hear my prayer, LORD, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with you as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
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Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And [to] my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I [am] with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
13 Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again before I depart and am no more.”
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Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
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