Psalms 38:5-10

⁵Behold, you have made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before you: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

⁶Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

⁷And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with you. Pause.

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.

⁹I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for you are he that made me.

¹⁰Remove your scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of your hand.