1To the excellent musician Ieduthun. I thought, I will take heede to my wayes, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth brideled, while the wicked is in my sight.

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Proverbs 21:23, Proverbs 21:23, Psalms 141:3, Psalms 141:3, James 1:26

2I was dumme and spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.

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Acts 4:20, Acts 4:20, Isaiah 53:7, Psalms 38:13, Psalms 38:14

3Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,

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Luke 24:32, Luke 24:32, Jeremiah 20:9, Jeremiah 20:9, Ezekiel 3:14

4Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.

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Psalms 90:12, Psalms 90:12, Psalms 103:14, Psalms 103:14, Psalms 119:84

5Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.

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Psalms 144:4, Psalms 144:4, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 90:9

6Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

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Ecclesiastes 2:26, Luke 12:20, Luke 12:21, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Luke 12:20

7And now Lord, what wait I for? mine hope is euen in thee.

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Romans 15:13, Romans 15:13, Psalms 38:15, Psalms 38:15, Psalms 119:81

8Deliuer me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolish.

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Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 79:4, Psalms 79:4, Psalms 65:3

9I should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.

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Job 2:10, Job 2:10, 2 Samuel 16:10, 2 Samuel 16:10, Job 1:21

10Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.

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Job 9:34, Job 9:34, Job 13:21, Job 13:21, Psalms 38:3

11When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.

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Job 13:28, Job 13:28, Isaiah 50:9, Isaiah 50:9, 1 Corinthians 11:30

12Heare my prayer, O Lord, and hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.

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1 Peter 2:11, 1 Peter 2:11, Hebrews 11:13, Hebrews 11:13, Genesis 47:9

13Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.

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Job 14:10, Job 14:12, Job 10:20, Job 10:21, Job 14:5