1 I said, I will keep watch over my ways, ♦︎
so that I offend not with my tongue.
2 I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, ♦︎
while the wicked are in my sight.
3 So I held my tongue and said nothing; ♦︎
I kept silent but to no avail.
4 My distress increased, my heart grew hot within me; ♦︎
while I mused, the fire was kindled
and I spoke out with my tongue:
5 Lord, let me know my end and the number of my days, ♦︎
that I may know how short my time is.
6 You have made my days but a handsbreadth,
and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight; ♦︎
truly, even those who stand upright are but a breath.
7 We walk about like a shadow
and in vain we are in turmoil; ♦︎
we heap up riches and cannot tell who will gather them.
8 And now, what is my hope? ♦︎
Truly my hope is even in you.
9 Deliver me from all my transgressions ♦︎
and do not make me the taunt of the fool.
10 I fell silent and did not open my mouth, ♦︎
for surely it was your doing.
11 Take away your plague from me; ♦︎
I am consumed by the blows of your hand.
12 With rebukes for sin you punish us;
like a moth you consume our beauty; ♦︎
truly, everyone is but a breath.
13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; ♦︎
hold not your peace at my tears.
14 For I am but a stranger with you, ♦︎
a wayfarer, as all my forebears were.
15 Turn your gaze from me, that I may be glad again, ♦︎
before I go my way and am no more.
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6 Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. 7Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play. 8We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 9We must not put Christ* to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. 10And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 12So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. 13No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.
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