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大卫的诗，交与歌咏长耶杜顿。
- 39:1 I said, I will keep my ways, So that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth When the wicked are before me.
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我曾说，我要谨守我的道路，免得我用舌头犯罪；恶人在我面前的时候，我要笼住我的口。
- 39:2 I was dumb and silent; I held my peace, even from good; And my pain was stirred up.
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我默然无声，连好话也不出口；我的痛苦就发动了。
- 39:3 My heart was hot within me; While I mused, the fire burned; I spoke with my tongue:
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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：
- 39:4 O Jehovah, cause me to know my end, And the measure of my days, what it is. May I know how transient I am.
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耶和华阿，求你叫我晓得我的结局，我的寿数几何。愿我知道我的生命何其短暂。
- 39:5 Behold, You have made my days as mere handbreadths, And my lifetime is as nothing before You; Surely every man at his best is altogether vanity.
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看哪，你使我的年日窄如手掌，我一生的年数，在你面前如同无有；各人站得稳妥的时候，不过尽是虚幻。 细拉
- 39:6 Surely man goes about as a semblance; Surely they bustle about in vain: He heaps up riches yet knows not Who will gather them.
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世人行动实系幻影；他们忙乱，真是枉然：积蓄财宝，却不知将来有谁收取。
- 39:7 And now what am I waiting for, O Lord? My hope-it is in You.
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主阿，如今我等什么呢？我的指望在乎你。
- 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the fool's reproach.
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求你救我脱离一切的过犯；不要使我受愚顽人的羞辱。
- 39:9 I was dumb; I did not open my mouth; For You have done this.
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因为这是你所作的，我就闭口不语。
- 39:10 Remove Your plague from me; By the hostility of Your hand I am consumed.
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求你把你的击打从我身上挪去；因你的手与我为敌，我便消灭。
- 39:11 With rebukes You chasten a man because of iniquity, And cause what is desirous to him to disappear like a moth. Surely every man is vanity.
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你因人的罪孽，就责备惩治他，叫他所喜爱的消失，如被虫蛀。众人真是虚幻。 细拉
- 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; And give ear to my cry; Do not hold Your peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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耶和华阿，求你听我的祷告，侧耳听我的呼求；我流泪，求你不要静默无声。因为我在你面前是客旅，是寄居的，像我列祖一样。
- 39:13 Look away from me, that I may be cheerful, Before I go away and am no more.
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求你转眼不看我，使我在去而不返之先，可得畅快。