b 1 Kin 2:4; 2 Kin 10:31; Ps 119:9
c Job 2:10; Ps 34:13; James 3:5-12
d Ps 141:3; James 3:2
e Ps 38:13
i Ps 32:4; Jer 20:9; Luke 24:32
j Job 6:11; Ps 90:12; 119:84
k Ps 78:39; 103:14
l Ps 89:47
m Ps 144:4
p Job 14:2; Ps 62:9; Eccl 6:12
r 1 Cor 7:31; James 1:10, 11; 1 Pet 1:24
t Ps 127:2; Eccl 5:17
u Ps 49:10; Eccl 2:26; 5:14; Luke 12:20
v Ps 38:15
w Ps 51:9, 14; 79:9
x Ps 44:13; 79:4; 119:22
y Ps 39:2
z 2 Sam 16:10; Job 2:10
aa Job 9:34; 13:21
ab Ps 32:4
ad Ezek 5:15; 2 Pet 2:16
ae Job 13:28; Ps 90:7; Is 50:9
af Ps 39:5
ag Ps 102:1; 143:1
ah 2 Kin 20:5; Ps 56:8
ai Lev 25:23; 1 Chr 29:15; Ps 119:19; Heb 11:13; 1 Pet 2:11
aj Gen 47:9
ak Job 7:19; 10:20, 21; 14:6; Ps 102:24

‏ Psalms 39

The Vanity of Life.

For the choir director, for ▼
▼ 1 Chr 16:41
Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

1 I said, “I will bguard my ways
That I cmay not sin with my tongue;
I will guard dmy mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”
 2I was emute ▼
▼ Lit with silence
and silent,
I ▼
▼ Lit kept silence
refrained even from good,
And my ▼
▼ Lit pain
sorrow grew worse.
 3My iheart was hot within me,
While I was musing the fire burned;
Then I spoke with my tongue:
 4“Lord, make me to know jmy end
And what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how ktransient I am.
 5“Behold, You have made lmy days as handbreadths,
And my mlifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man ▼
▼ Lit standing firm
at his best is ▼
▼ Or altogether vanity
a mere pbreath. ▼
▼ Selah may mean: Pause, Crescendo or Musical interlude
Selah.
 6“Surely every man rwalks about as ▼
▼ Lit an image
a phantom;
Surely they make an tuproar for nothing;
He uamasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

 7“And now, Lord, for what do I wait?
My vhope is in You.
 8 w“Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Make me not the xreproach of the foolish.
 9“I have become ymute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is zYou who have done it.
 10 aa“Remove Your plague from me;
Because of abthe opposition of Your hand I am ▼
▼ Or wasting away
perishing.
 11“With adreproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;
You aeconsume as a moth what is precious to him;
Surely afevery man is a mere breath. Selah.

 12 ag“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent ahat my tears;
For I am aia stranger with You,
A ajsojourner like all my fathers.
 13 ak“Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may ▼
▼ Or become cheerful
smile again
Before I depart and am no more.”
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