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Psalms 39

13 aligned verses; 13 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse KJV King James Version YLT Young's Literal Translation
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.
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. '
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good ; and my sorrow was stirred .
I was dumb ` with ' silence, I kept silent from good , and my pain is excited .
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue ,
Hot `is' my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue .
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days , what it is : that I may know how frail I am.
`Cause me to know , O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it ` is ',' I 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 vanity . Selah.
Lo , handbreadths Thou hast made my days , And mine age ` is ' as nothing before Thee , Only, all vanity `is' every man set up . Selah.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain , they are disquieted , He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
And now , Lord , what wait I for ? my hope is in thee.
And, now , what have I expected ? O Lord, my hope -- it ` is ' of Thee.
Deliver me from all my transgressions : make me not the reproach of the foolish .
From all my transgressions deliver me , A reproach of the fool make me not .
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it.
I have been dumb, I open not my mouth , Because Thou -- Thou hast done ` it ' .
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Turn aside from off me Thy stroke , From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed .
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth : surely every man is vanity . Selah.
With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity `is' every man. Selah.
Hear my prayer, O LORD , and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were .
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah , And `to' my cry give ear , Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I ` am ' with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

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