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              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.
            
            
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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.”            
            
              2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
            
            
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So I remained utterly silent, not even saying anything good. But my anguish increased;            
            
              3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] I spoke with my tongue.
            
            
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my heart grew hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:            
            
              4 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it [is]; [that] I may know how frail I [am].
            
            
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“Show me, LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.            
            
              5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] a hand-breadth; and my age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
            
            
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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.            
            
              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.
            
            
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“Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.            
            
              7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
            
            
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“But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.            
            
              8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
            
            
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Save me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.            
            
              9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].
            
            
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I was silent; I would not open my mouth, for you are the one who has done this.            
            
              10 Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
            
            
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Remove your scourge from me; I am overcome by the blow of your 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.
            
            
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When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth— surely everyone is but a breath.            
            
              12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].
            
            
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“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.            
            
              13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
            
            
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Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again before I depart and am no more.”            
          
            
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