Глава 39

1. ¶ I SAID, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep the words of my mouth under control while the wicked is before me.
2. I was dumb and sorrowful, I was wretched, I held myself aloof, even from good; and my sorrow was multiplied.
3. My heart was hot within me; and my body was on fire; then spoke I with my tongue,
4. LORD, show me mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know my destiny.
5. Behold, thou hast given my days a limit; and mine age is as nothing before thee; verily all men stand as a mere breath.
6. Because every man walks as an image, he disappears as a breath; he buries treasures and knows not who shall gather them.
7. ¶ Henceforth, what is my hope except in thee, O LORD?
8. Deliver thou me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the unjust.
9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.
10. Remove thy scourges from me; I am stricken by the blow of thy hand.
11. I am consumed by rebuke on account of my sins; thou dost chastise a man and dost remove his desires like stubble. Verily all men are like a breath.
12. Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears; for I am a dweller with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13. O deliver me, that I may rest in peace before I pass away and be no more.