| New King James Version | King James Bible |
| 1To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me.” | 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 with silence, I held my peace even from good; And my sorrow was stirred up. | 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 measure of my days, That I may know how frail 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. |
| 5Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. 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. |
| 6Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up 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, what do I wait for? My hope is in You. | 7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. |
| 8Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the reproach of the foolish. | 8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
| 9I was mute, I did not open my mouth, Because it was You who did it. | 9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. |
| 10Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand. | 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. |
| 11When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; Surely every man is vapor. 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, as all my fathers were. | 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. |
| 13Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, Before I go away and am no more.” | 13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. |
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