¹I said, I will be careful with my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep the words of my mouth under control, while the wicked are before me.
²I was mute and sorrowful, I was wretched, I held myself aloof, even from good; and my sorrow was multiplied.
³My heart was hot inside me; and my body was on fire; then I spoke with my tongue.

⁴Yahvah, show me my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know my destiny.
⁵Look, you have given my days a limit; and my age is as nothing before you; assuredly all men stand as a mere breath.
⁶Because every man walks as an image, he disappears as a breath; he buries treasures and does not know who will gather them.

⁷From now on, what is my hope, except in you, master?
⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the disgrace of the unjust.
⁹I was mute, I did not open my mouth, because you did it.
¹⁰Remove your scourges from me; I am struck by the blow of your hand.
¹¹I am consumed by rebuke on account of my sins; you chastise a man and remove his desires like stubble. Assuredly all men are like a breath.

¹²Hear my prayer, Yahvah; give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears; for I live with you and am a temporary resident here, as all my fathers were.
¹³Deliver me, that I may rest in peace, before I pass away and not be anymore.