David seeks to control his tongue—Man is altogether vanity—He is a stranger and a sojourner on earth.

 I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my ^atongue^•: I will keep my ^bmouth^• with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

 My heart was ^ahot^• within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the ^ameasure^• of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

 Behold, 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 ^avanity^•. Selah.

 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up ^ariches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

 ^aDeliver me from all my ^btransgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

 When thou with rebukes dost ^acorrect^• man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is ^bvanity. Selah.

 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a ^astranger with thee, and a ^bsojourner^•, as all my fathers were.

 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.