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39 ‎(1) For the leader; for *Jeduthun*. A psalm of David.
‎(2) I resolved I would watch my step
lest I offend by my speech;
I would keep my mouth muzzled
while the wicked man was in my presence. ‎(3) I was dumb, silent;
I was very still
while my pain was intense. ‎(4) My mind was in a rage,
my thoughts were all aflame;
I spoke out: ‎(5) Tell me, O LORD, what my term is,
what is the measure of my days;
I would know how fleeting my life is. ‎(6) You have made my life just handbreadths long;
its span is as nothing in Your sight;
no man endures any longer than a breath. *Selah*. ‎(7) Man walks about as a mere shadow;
mere futility is his hustle and bustle,
amassing and not knowing who will gather in. ‎(8) What, then, can I count on, O Lord?
In You my hope lies. ‎(9) Deliver me from all my transgressions;
make me not the butt of the benighted. ‎(10) I am dumb, I do not speak up,
for it is Your doing. ‎(11) Take away Your plague from me;
I perish from Your blows. ‎(12) You chastise a man in punishment for his sin,
consuming like a moth what he treasures.
No man is more than a breath. *Selah*.
‎(13) Hear my prayer, O LORD;
give ear to my cry;
do not disregard my tears;
for like all my forebears
I am an alien, resident with You. ‎(14) Look away from me, that I may recover,
before I pass away and am gone.
Version: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, published by JPS
Source: https://jps.org/books/tanakh-the-holy-scriptures-blue/
License: CC-BY-NC