Psalms 38:5-10

⁵O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.

⁶Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

⁷Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

⁸And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with thee. Pause.

⁹Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.

¹⁰I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me.