Psalms 39
Reading Psalms chapter 39 in the Young's Literal Translation, public-domain text from 1898.
Verses 1–10
1 To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. --A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'
2 I was dumb with silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
3 Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
4 `Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days--what it is ,' I know how frail I am .
5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.
6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
7 And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope--it is of Thee.
8 From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
9 I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou--Thou hast done it .
10 Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
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