1. To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. --A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked [is] before me.'
2. I was dumb [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
3. Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
4. `Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days--what it [is],' I know how frail I [am].
5. Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. Selah.