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Psalm 39:5-13 English Standard Version (ESV)

5. 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

6. 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!

7. “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

8. Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool!

9. I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.

10. Remove your stroke from me;I am spent by the hostility of your hand.

11. When you discipline a manwith rebukes for sin,you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

12. “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.

13. Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!”

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