1. I said, I will take heed to my ways,

1. That I sin not with my tongue:

1. I will keep my mouth with a bridle,

1. While the wicked is before me.

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

2. And my sorrow was stirred.

3. My heart was hot within me;

3. While I was musing the fire kindled:

3. Then spake I with my tongue:

4. LORD, make me to know mine end,

4. And the measure of my days, what it is;

4. Let me know how frail I am.

5. Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths;

5. And mine age is as nothing before thee:

5. Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew:

6. Surely they are disquieted in vain:

6. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

7. And now, Lord, what wait I for?

7. My hope is in thee.

8. Deliver me from all my transgressions:

8. Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;

9. Because thou didst it.

10. Remove thy stroke away from me:

10. I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,

11. Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:

11. Surely every man is vanity. Selah

12. Hear my prayer, O LORD,

12. And give ear unto my cry;

12. Hold not thy peace at my tears:

12. For I am a stranger with thee,

12. A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

13. O spare me, that I may recover strength,

13. Before I go hence, and be no more.