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I 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.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, <i>even</i> from good; and my sorrow was stirred.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I was mute and silent; I held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: <i>then</i> spake I with my tongue,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it <i>is; that</i> I may know how frail I <i>am</i>.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Behold, thou hast made my days <i>as</i> an handbreadth; and mine age <i>is</i> as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state <i>is</i> altogether vanity. Selah.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up <i>riches</i>, and knoweth not who shall gather them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope <i>is</i> in thee.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst <i>it</i>.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man <i>is</i> vanity. Selah.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I <i>am</i> a stranger with thee, <i>and</i> a sojourner, as all my fathers <i>were</i>.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">King James Bible, text courtesy of <a href="http://bibleprotector.com/">BibleProtector.com</a>.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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