1. I said, “I will take heed of my waysso that I do not sin with my tongue;I will keep my mouth muzzledwhile the wicked are before me.”
2. I was speechless in silence;I was silent to no avail,but my anguish was stirred up.
3. My heart was hot within me;while I was musing, the fire burned,then I spoke with my tongue:
4. “Lord, make me to know my end,and what is the measure of my days,that I may know how transient I am.
5. Indeed, You have made my days as a handbreadth,and my age is as nothing before You;indeed every man at his best is as a breath.” Selah
6. Surely every man walks in a mere shadow;surely he goes as a breath;he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.
7. Now, Lord, what do I wait for?My hope is in You.
8. Deliver me from all my transgressions;do not make me the reproach of the foolish.