Psalms 39:4-11

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