Compare: Psalm 39

BSB

For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

BSB

I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.

BSB

My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

BSB

“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

BSB

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

BSB

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

BSB

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

BSB

Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

BSB

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

BSB

Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

BSB

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

BSB

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

BSB

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”