| 39:1
| 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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| 39:2
| I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow
was stirred.
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| 39:3
| My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then
spake I with my tongue,
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| 39:4
| LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is:
that I may know how frail I am.
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| 39:5
| Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as
nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether
vanity. Selah.
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| 39:6
| Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in
vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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| 39:7
| And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
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| 39:8
| Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the
foolish.
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| 39:9
| I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
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| 39:10
| Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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| 39:11
| 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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| 39:12
| Hear 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.
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| 39:13
| O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no
more.
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