Psalm

Psalm

1. I said, "I will guard my ways, lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked are before me."  (Job 7:11;   Ps. 17:3;   James 3:5-12)
2. I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred up.  (Ps. 38:13)
3. My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned.  Then I spoke with my tongue:
4. "Lord, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am.  (Ps. 90:12;   Ps. 119:84)
5. Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You; certainly every man at his best state is but vapour.  (Job 10:20)
6. Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.  (Luke 12:20)
7. "And now, Lord, what do I wait for?  My hope is in You.  (Ps. 38:15)
8. Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of the foolish.  (Ps. 119:22)    ( PASS ON TO A FRIEND)
9. I was mute, I did not open my mouth, because it was You who did it.  (Ps. 39:2;   Job 2:10;   Job 7:11)
10. Remove Your plague from me;  (Job 9:34;   Job 13:21)  I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
11. When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth;  (Job 13:28)  surely every man is vapour.  (Ps. 144:4)   Selah
12. "Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent to my tears; for I am a stranger with You, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.  (Gen. 47:9;   Ps. 28:1;   Heb. 11:13)
13. Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,  (Job 7:19;   Job 10:20&21;   Job 14:6) before I go away and am no more."  (Job 14:10)