诗篇 第 39 篇
1大卫的诗，交与伶长耶杜顿。 我曾说：我要谨慎我的言行， 免得我舌头犯罪； 恶人在我面前的时候， 我要用嚼环勒住我的口。
1To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2我默然无声，连好话也不出口； 我的愁苦就发动了，
2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3我的心在我里面发热。 我默想的时候，火就烧起， 我便用舌头说话。
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
4耶和华啊，求你叫我晓得我身之终！ 我的寿数几何？ 叫我知道我的生命不长！
4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
5你使我的年日窄如手掌； 我一生的年数，在你面前如同无有。 各人最稳妥的时候，真是全然虚幻。 （细拉）
5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6世人行动实系幻影。 他们忙乱，真是枉然； 积蓄财宝，不知将来有谁收取。
6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
8求你救我脱离一切的过犯， 不要使我受愚顽人的羞辱。
8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
10求你把你的责罚从我身上免去； 因你手的责打，我便消灭。
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11你因人的罪恶惩罚他的时候， 叫他的笑容消灭，如衣被虫所咬。 世人真是虚幻！ （细拉）
11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.