1I 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.

2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred.

3My heart was hot within me,
While I was musing the fire burned:
Then spake I with my tongue,

4Lord, make me to know mine end,
And the measure of my days, what it is;
That I may know how frail I am.

5Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth;
And mine age is as nothing before thee:
Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew:
Surely they are disquieted in vain:
He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

7And now, Lord, what wait I for?
My hope is in thee.

8Deliver me from all my transgressions:
Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;
Because thou didst it.

10Remove thy stroke away from me:
I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,
Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:
Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

12Hear 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.

13O spare me, that I may recover strength,
Before I go hence, and be no more.