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KING JAMES VERSION
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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.
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I was dumb with
silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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My heart was hot
within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
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LORD, make me to
know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how
frail I am.
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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.
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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.
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And now, Lord, what
wait I for? my hope is in thee. |
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Deliver me from all
my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
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I was dumb, I opened
not my mouth; because thou didst it. |
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Remove thy stroke
away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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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.
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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 were.
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O spare me, that I
may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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