Psalms 39:3-11

³My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue.

⁴LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am .

⁵Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth; and my age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

⁶Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches , and knoweth not who shall gather them.

⁷And now, LORD, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

⁹I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it .

¹⁰Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

¹¹When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.