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1 <V 38:1>Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David. <V 38:2>I said, “I will keep to my ways, so that I will not offend with my tongue.” I posted a guard at my mouth, when a sinner took up a position against me. 2 <V 38:3>I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed. 3 <V 38:4>My heart grew hot within me, and, during my meditation, a fire would flare up. 4 <V 38:5>I spoke with my tongue, “O Lord, make me know my end, and what the number of my days will be, so that I may know what is lacking to me.” 5 <V 38:6>Behold, you have made my days measurable, and, before you, my substance is as nothing. Yet truly, all things are vanity: every living man. 6 <V 38:7>So then, truly man passes by like an image; even so, he is disquieted in vain. He stores up, and he knows not for whom he will gather these things. Psalms 39:1-6, Catholic Public Domain Version. Public domain.
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