Book of Psalms, No. 39
No. 39 of the Psalms
To keep from sinning with my tongue.2
¶ I will set a muzzle as a guard to my own mouth,3
As long as anyone wicked is in front of me.”4
I kept quiet from what is good,6
And my being pained was ostracized.
During my sighing the fire kept burning.
I spoke with my tongue:
And the measure of my days—what it is,9
That I may know how transient I am.10
And my life’s duration is as nothing in front of you.12
Surely every earthling man,[b] though standing firm, is nothing but an exhalation.13 Seʹlah.
Surely they are boisterous in vain.15
One piles up things and does not know who will be gathering them.16
My expectation is toward you.17
Do not set me as a reproach of the senseless one.19
For you yourself acted.22
Due to the hostility of your hand I myself have come to an end.24
And you consume his desirable things just as a moth26 does.
Surely every earthling man[f] is an exhalation.27 Seʹlah.
And to my cry for help do give ear.28
At my tears do not keep silent.29
¶ For I am but an alien resident with you,30
A settler the same as all my forefathers.31
Before I go away and I am not.”33FOOTNOTES
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