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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.

2

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

3

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

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Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is Let me know how frail I am.

5

Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

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

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

9

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

10

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

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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

12

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

13

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