Psalm 39:4 {38:5}
Good News Translation
"LORD, how long will I live? When will I die? Tell me how soon my life will end."

New Revised Standard Version
“LORD, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.

Contemporary English Version
"Please, LORD, show me my future. Will I soon be gone?

New American Bible
LORD, let me know my end, the number of my days, that I may learn how frail I am.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.

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I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.

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Psalm 90:12 Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

Psalm 119:84 How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

Job 14:13 Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

Context
I Will Watch My Ways
3My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out. 4I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.5Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.…
Cross References
Job 6:11
For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?

Psalm 78:39
And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

Psalm 90:12
Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

Psalm 103:14
For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

Psalm 119:84
How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

Psalm 39:3
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