1 T o the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked before me.'

2 I was dumb silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

3 H ot my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.

4 ` Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it,' I know how frail I.

5 L o, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity every man set up. Selah.

6 O nly, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

7 A nd, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it of Thee.

8 F rom all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.

9 I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done.

10 T urn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

11 W ith reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity every man. Selah.

12 H ear my prayer, O Jehovah, And my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

13 L ook from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!