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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I told myself, "I will keep watch over my tongue to keep from sinning. I will muzzle my mouth when the wicked are around." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I was as silent as a mute person; I said nothing, not even something good, and my distress deepened. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3My heart within me became incensed; as I thought about it, the fire burned. Then I spoke out: |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"LORD, let me know how my life ends, and the standard by which you will measure my days, whatever it is! Then I will know how transient my life is. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7How long, LORD, will I wait expectantly? I have placed my hope in you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Deliver me from all my transgressions, and do not let fools scorn me." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I remain silent; I do not open my mouth, for you are the one who acted. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Stop scourging me, since I have been crushed by your heavy hand. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Stop looking at me with chastisement, so I can smile again, before I depart and am no more. |
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