Psalms 39:2-11

²I was dumme and spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.

³Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,

⁴Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.

⁵Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.

⁶Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

⁷And now Lord, what wait I for? mine hope is euen in thee.

⁸Deliuer me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolish.

⁹I should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.

¹⁰Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.

¹¹When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.