Psalm 39

Revised Geneva Translation

39 I thought, “I will guard my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth bridled while the wicked are in my sight.

² I was dumb and spoke nothing. I kept silent, even from good; and my sorrow was more stirred.

³ My heart was hot within me. While I was musing, the fire kindled and I spoke with my tongue:

⁴ “LORD, let me know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how long I have to live.”

⁵ Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth and my age as nothing in Your sight. Surely, every man is altogether vanity in his best state. Selah.

⁶ Doubtless, man walks in a shadow, and disquiets himself pointlessly. He heaps up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them.

⁷ And now LORD, for what do I wait? My hope is even in You.

⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions, and do not make me a rebuke to the foolish.

⁹ I should have been dumb, and not have opened my mouth, because You did it.

¹⁰ Take Your plague away from me; for I am consumed by the stroke of Your hand.

¹¹ When, with rebukes, You chastise man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away as a moth. Surely, every man is vanity. Selah.

¹² Hear my prayer, O LORD; and hear my cry. Do not keep silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You and a sojourner, as all my fathers.

¹³ Keep Your anger from me, so that I may recover my strength before I go away and am no more. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.