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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.
 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 spoke I with my tongue,
  
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.
  
5.
 Behold, you have 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.
 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.
 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
  
8.
 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
  
9.
 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you didst it.
  
10.
 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
  
11.
 When you with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, you makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
  
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.
  
13.
 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
  

 
 
 

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