Psalms 39:5-13 ▼

5 Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, || And my age [is] as nothing before You, || Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah.

6 Only, each habitually walks in an image, || Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, || He heaps up and does not know who gathers them.

7 And now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it [is] of You.

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions, || Do not make me a reproach of the fool.

9 I have been mute, I do not open my mouth, || Because You have done [it].

10 Turn aside Your stroke from off me, || From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.

11 With reproofs against iniquity, || You have corrected man, || And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, || Only, every man [is] vanity. Selah.

12 Hear my prayer, O YHWH, || And give ear [to] my cry, || Do not be silent to my tear, || For I [am] a sojourner with You, || A settler like all my fathers.

13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!