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| 39:2: I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred. |
| 39:3: My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue: |
| 39:4: "Yahweh, show me my end, What is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am. |
| 39:5: Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah. |
| 39:6: "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather. |
| 39:7: Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. |
| 39:8: Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish. |
| 39:9: I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, Because you did it. |
| 39:10: Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand. |
| 39:11: When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah. |
| 39:12: "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were. |
| 39:13: Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more." |
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