1 To the overseer, to Jeduthun: chanting of David. I said, I will watch my way from sinning with my tongue: I will watch for my mouth with a muzzle while yet the unjust one is before me.
2 I was dumb with silence, I was silent from good, and my pain was moved.
3 My heart was hot in the midst of me; in my heat the fire will burn: I spake with my tongue.
4 O Jehovah, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I shall know how I fail.
5 Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
6 Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.
7 And now, what waited I for, O Jehovah? my hope it is to thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgression: thou wilt not set me a reproach of the foolish one.
9 I was dumb, I will not open my mouth; for thou didst
10 Remove from me thy stroke: I was finished from the contention of thy hand.
11 With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.