1I said, I will take heed to my ways so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle while the wicked are before me. 2I was mute with silence; I kept still, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred up. 3My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue: 4O Jehovah, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. 5Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man, even though standing tall, is total vanity. Selah. 6Surely every man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are stirred up in vain. He heaps up the produce, and does not know who shall gather it. 7And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You. 8Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9I was mute, I did not open my mouth; because You have done it. 10Remove Your stroke away from me; I am destroyed by the blow of Your hand. 11You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah. 12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You, a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13Look away from me, that I may regain strength before I go away and be no more.