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¹ I said, to myself, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue, - I will put on my mouth a muzzle, So long as the lawless is before me.² I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, afar from happiness, But, my pain had been stirred:³ Hot was my heart within me, While I was musing, there was kindled a fire, I spake with my tongue!⁴ Let me know, O Yahweh, mine end, And the measure of my days - what it is, I would know how short-lived I am.⁵ Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee, - Surely, a mere breath, are all men, even such as stand firm. Selah.⁶ Surely as a shadow, doth every man wander, Surely in vain, do they bustle about, he heapeth things up, and knoweth not who shall gather them in.

⁷ Now, therefore, for what have I waited, O My Lord? My hope, is, in thee.⁸ From all my transgressions, rescue thou me, - The reproach of the base, oh do not make me!⁹ I am dumb, I cannot open my mouth, for, thou, hast done it.¹⁰ Remove from off me thy stroke, Because of the hostility of thy hand, am, I, consumed.¹¹ When, by rebukes for iniquity, thou hast corrected a man, Then hast thou consumed, as a moth, all that was delightful within him, Surely, a breath, are all men. Selah.¹² Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, And, unto my cry for help, give ear, At my tears, do not be silent, - For, a sojourner, am, I, with thee, A stranger, like all my fathers.¹³ Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet I depart and am no more.