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The Vanity of Life.For the Chief Musician, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. 1 I said, I will take heed to my ways,That I sin not with my tongue:I will keep my mouth with a bridle,While the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good;And my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me;While I was musing the fire burnedThen spake I with my tongue: 4 Jehovah, make me to know mine end,And the measure of my days, what it is;Let me know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths;And my lifetime is as nothing before thee:Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {Selah 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show;Surely they are disquieted in vain:He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. 7 And now, Jehovah, what wait I for?My hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions:Make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;Because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me:I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:Surely every man is vanity. {Selah 12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry;Hold not thy peace at my tears:For I am a stranger with thee,A sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,Before I go hence, and be no more.
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways,That I sin not with my tongue:I will keep my mouth with a bridle,While the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good;And my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me;While I was musing the fire burnedThen spake I with my tongue: 4 Jehovah, make me to know mine end,And the measure of my days, what it is;Let me know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths;And my lifetime is as nothing before thee:Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {Selah 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show;Surely they are disquieted in vain:He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. 7 And now, Jehovah, what wait I for?My hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions:Make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;Because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me:I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:Surely every man is vanity. {Selah 12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry;Hold not thy peace at my tears:For I am a stranger with thee,A sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,Before I go hence, and be no more.