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Chapter 39
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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
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I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good;
and my sorrow was stirred. |
3
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My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire
burned: then spake I with my tongue, |
4
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LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my
days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. |
5
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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. |
6
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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. |
7
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And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. |
8
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Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the
reproach of the foolish. |
9
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I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst
it. |
10
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Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the
blow of thine hand. |
11
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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
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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. |
13
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O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go
hence, and be no more. |
