New American Standard Bible PSALMS 39

The Vanity of Life.

For the choir director, for AJeduthun. A Psalm of David.

1 I said, “I will Aguard my ways

That I Bmay not sin with my tongue;

I will guard Cmy mouth as with a muzzle

While the wicked are in my presence.”

2 I was Amute 1and silent,

I 2refrained even from good,

And my 3sorrow grew worse.

3 My Aheart was hot within me,

While I was musing the fire burned;

Then I spoke with my tongue:

4 “Loʀᴅ, make me to know Amy end

And what is the extent of my days;

Let me know how Btransient I am.

5 “Behold, You have made Amy days as handbreadths,

And my Blifetime as nothing in Your sight;

Surely every man 1at his best is 2a mere Cbreath. 3Selah.

6 “Surely every man Awalks about as 1a phantom;

Surely they make an Buproar for nothing;

He Camasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

7 “And now, Lord, for what do I wait?

My Ahope is in You.

8 “ADeliver me from all my transgressions;

Make me not the Breproach of the foolish.

9 “I have become Amute, I do not open my mouth,

Because it is BYou who have done it.

10 “ARemove Your plague from me;

Because of Bthe opposition of Your hand I am 1perishing.

11 “With Areproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;

You Bconsume as a moth what is precious to him;

Surely Cevery man is a mere breath. Selah.

12 “AHear my prayer, O Loʀᴅ, and give ear to my cry;

Do not be silent Bat my tears;

For I am Ca stranger with You,

A Dsojourner like all my fathers.

13 “ATurn Your gaze away from me, that I may 1smile again

Before I depart and am no more.”

A^ 1 Chr 16:41

A39:1 1 Kin 2:4; 2 Kin 10:31; Ps 119:9

B39:1 Job 2:10; Ps 34:13; James 3:5-12

C39:1 Ps 141:3; James 3:2

A39:2 Ps 38:13

139:2 Lit with silence

239:2 Lit kept silence

339:2 Lit pain

A39:3 Ps 32:4; Jer 20:9; Luke 24:32

A39:4 Job 6:11; Ps 90:12; 119:84

B39:4 Ps 78:39; 103:14

A39:5 Ps 89:47

B39:5 Ps 144:4

139:5 Lit standing firm

239:5 Or altogether vanity

C39:5 Job 14:2; Ps 62:9; Eccl 6:12

339:5 Selah may mean: Pause, Crescendo or Musical interlude

A39:6 1 Cor 7:31; James 1:10, 11; 1 Pet 1:24

139:6 Lit an image

B39:6 Ps 127:2; Eccl 5:17

C39:6 Ps 49:10; Eccl 2:26; 5:14; Luke 12:20

A39:7 Ps 38:15

A39:8 Ps 51:9, 14; 79:9

B39:8 Ps 44:13; 79:4; 119:22

A39:9 Ps 39:2

B39:9 2 Sam 16:10; Job 2:10

A39:10 Job 9:34; 13:21

B39:10 Ps 32:4

139:10 Or wasting away

A39:11 Ezek 5:15; 2 Pet 2:16

B39:11 Job 13:28; Ps 90:7; Is 50:9

C39:11 Ps 39:5

A39:12 Ps 102:1; 143:1

B39:12 2 Kin 20:5; Ps 56:8

C39:12 Lev 25:23; 1 Chr 29:15; Ps 119:19; Heb 11:13; 1 Pet 2:11

D39:12 Gen 47:9

A39:13 Job 7:19; 10:20, 21; 14:6; Ps 102:24

139:13 Or become cheerful