YLT - Psalms - 39

39:1  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.'

39:2  I was dumb with silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

39:3  Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.

39:4  `Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days--what it is ,' I know how frail I am .

39:5  Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.

39:6  Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

39:7  And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope--it is of Thee.

39:8  From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.

39:9  I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou--Thou hast done it .

39:10  Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

39:11  With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.

39:12  Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

39:13  Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!