Psalms 39:2-12

²I kept silent; I kept back my words even from saying anything good, and my pain grew worse.

³My heart became hot; when I thought about these things, it burned like a fire. Then finally I spoke.

⁴“Yahweh, make me know when will be the end of my life and the extent of my days. Show me how transient I am.

⁵See, you have made my days only the width of my hand, and my lifetime is like nothing before you. Surely every man is a single breath. Selah

⁶Surely every man walks about like a shadow. Surely everyone hurries about to accumulate riches although they do not know who will receive them.

⁷Now, Lord, for what am I waiting? You are my only hope.

⁸Rescue me from my sins; do not make me the reproach of fools.

⁹I am silent and cannot open my mouth, because it is you who has done it.

¹⁰Stop wounding me; I am overwhelmed by the blow of your hand.

¹¹When you discipline people for sin, you consume the things they desire like a moth; surely all people are nothing but vapor. Selah

¹²Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and listen to me; listen to my weeping! Do not be deaf to me, for I am like a foreigner with you, a refugee like all my ancestors were.