^{3 Ref} My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: `Then' spake I with my tongue:

^{4 Ref} Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

^{5 Ref} Behold, thou hast made my days `as' handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

^{6 Ref} Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up `riches', and knoweth not who shall gather them.

^{7 Ref} And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.

^{8 Ref} Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

^{9 Ref} I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.