I said, "I will guard my ways, lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with muzzel, while the wicked are before me."

2 I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred up.

3 My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the file 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 frail I am.

5 Indeed, 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

6 Surely 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.

7 "And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope in You.

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

9 I was mute, I did not open my mouth, because it was You who did it.

10 Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.

11 When with rebukes Your correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; surely every man is vapor.                                                 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 sojouner, as all my fathers were.

13 Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength before I go away and an no more. PSALM 39