39:1 To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked [is] before me.'
39:9 I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done [it].
39:10 Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
39:11 With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.
39:12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And [to] my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I [am] with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
39:13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!