1. I said, “I will guard my ways,Lest I sin with my tongue;I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,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 fire 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