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My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing the fire burned;
Then spake I with my tongue:
Jehovah, make me to know mine end,
And the measure of my days, what it is;
Let me know how frail I am.
Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths;
And my life-time is as nothing before thee:
Surely every man [a]at his best estate is altogether [b]vanity. Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:5 Hebrew standing firm.
  2. Psalm 39:5 Hebrew a breath.