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LEB by section PSA 39:1

⌂ ← PSA 39:1–39:13 → ║ ©

Psalm 39/The Brevity of Human Life

The Brevity of Human Life

39 [fn] with my tongue.
I will keep a muzzle over my mouth
as long as the wicked are before me.”
2 with silence. I was silent even from saying good things, and my pain was stirred up.
3  in my sighing a fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue,
4  and what is the measure of my days.
Let me know how transient I am.”
5 mere handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you.
Surely every person standing firm is complete vanity.Selah
6 mere[fn] surely in vain they bustle about.
He heaps up possessions but does not know who will gather them in.
7  My hope is for you.
8  do not make me the taunt of the fool.
9  for you, yourself, have done it.
10  By the opposition of your hand I perish.
11 When with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you[fn][fn] like a moth his delightful things.
Surely everyone is a mere vapor.[fn]Selah
12 to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears.
For I am an alien[fn] with you,
a sojourner like all my ancestors.[fn]
13 away from me that I may be cheerful, before I depart and I am no more.

?:? Literally “from sinning”

?:? Literally “image”

?:? Hebrew “and/then you”

?:? Literally “cause to melt”

?:? The word translated “vanity” in vv. 6, 7

?:? Or “stranger”

?:? Or “fathers”

⌂ ← PSA 39:1–39:13 → ║ ©

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