1 ¶ I said, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bit while the wicked is against me.

2 I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

3 M y heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue,

4 L ORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how long I am to be of this world.

5 B ehold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.

6 S urely man walks in darkness; surely they are disquieted in vain; they heap up riches not knowing who shall gather them.

7 ¶ And now, Lord, what shall I wait for? My hope is in thee.

8 D eliver me from all my rebellions; do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

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

10 R emove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

11 W hen thou with chastening dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his greatness to consume away like a moth; surely every man is vanity. Selah.

12 H ear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

13 O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.