1. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.
2. I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3. My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
4. Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
5. Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
6. Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.