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Chapter 39
Psal OEBcth 39:1  I vowed to watch my words, and sin not with my tongue, but to put on my mouth a muzzle, while the wicked were in my presence.
Psal OEBcth 39:2  I was silent and dumb, speechless: but my pain was stirred up.
Psal OEBcth 39:3  My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire was kindled, till at last the words came to my tongue.
Psal OEBcth 39:4  “Teach me, O Lord, my end, and the sum of my days what it is. Let me know how transient I am.
Psal OEBcth 39:5  See! My days you have made but a span, and my life is as nothing before you. It is but as a breath that everyone stands: (Selah)
Psal OEBcth 39:6  it is but in mere semblance we walk to and fro, and all our noise is for nothing. We heaps up, and knows not who will gather.”
Psal OEBcth 39:7  And now, what wait I for, Lord? My hope is in you.
Psal OEBcth 39:8  From all my transgressions deliver me; make me not the scorn of the fool.
Psal OEBcth 39:9  I am dumb, never opening my mouth, for this is your own doing.
Psal OEBcth 39:10  Remove your stroke from off me: by the might of your hand I am spent.
Psal OEBcth 39:11  When you rebuke someone to punish their sins, you consume, like a moth, what they treasure. Everyone is only a breath. (Selah)
Psal OEBcth 39:12  Hear my prayer, O Lord; attend to my cry for help. Hold not your peace at my tears. For I am but a guest of yours, a stranger visiting, like all my ancestors.
Psal OEBcth 39:13  Look away from me, let me smile again, before I die and am gone.