| English Standard Version | King James Bible |
| 1I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as 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 held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse. | 2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. |
| 3My heart became hot within me. As I mused, 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“O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting 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. |
| 5Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as 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. |
| 6Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather! | 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, O Lord, for what do I wait? 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 scorn of the fool! | 8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
| 9I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it. | 9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. |
| 10Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand. | 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. |
| 11When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind 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; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, 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. |
| 13Look 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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