38:0 ^[228] KJV Chapter [39] To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David:

38:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me:

38:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred:

38:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] spake I with my tongue:

38:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I:

38:5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah:

38:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them:

38:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee:

38:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish:

38:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst:

38:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand:

38:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah:

38:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers:

38:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more: