Psalms 39
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
1I 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.2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, <add>even</add> from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: <add>then</add> spake I with my tongue,
4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it <add>is; that</add> I may know how frail I <add>am</add>.
5Behold, thou hast made my days <add>as</add> an handbreadth; and mine age <add>is</add> as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state <add>is</add> altogether vanity. Selah.
6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up <add>riches</add>, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope <add>is</add> 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 <add>it</add>.
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man <add>is</add> vanity. Selah.
12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I <add>am</add> a stranger with thee, <add>and</add> a sojourner, as all my fathers <add>were</add>.
13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.