| New American Standard Bible 1995 | King James Bible |
| 1For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, "I will guard my ways That I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle While the wicked are in my presence." | 1To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 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. |
| 2I was mute and silent, I refrained even from good, And my sorrow grew worse. | 2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. |
| 3My heart was hot within me, While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue: | 3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, |
| 4"LORD, make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am. | 4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. |
| 5"Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah. | 5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. |
| 6"Surely every man walks about as a phantom; Surely they make an uproar for nothing; He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them. | 6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
| 7"And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You. | 7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. |
| 8"Deliver me from all my transgressions; Make me not the reproach of the foolish. | 8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
| 9"I have become mute, I do not open my mouth, Because it is You who have done it. | 9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. |
| 10"Remove Your plague from me; Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing. | 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. |
| 11"With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity; You consume as a moth what is precious to him; Surely every man is a mere breath. Selah. | 11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. |
| 12"Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner like all my fathers. | 12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. |
| 13"Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again Before I depart and am no more." | 13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. |
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