Prayer for Wisdom and Forgiveness
To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
Lest I sin with my atongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.”
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but avapor. Selah
Surely they1 busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.
You make his beauty amelt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor. Selah
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Psalms 39:2
I held any peace, even from good - " I ceased from the words of the law," says the Chaldee. I spoke nothing, either good or bad. I did not even defend myself.
My sorrow was stirred - My afflictions increased, and I had an exacerbation of pain. It is a hard thing to be denied the benefit of complaint in sufferings, as it has a tendency to relieve the mind, and indeed, in some sort, to call off the attention from the place of actual suffering: and yet undue and extravagant complaining enervates the mind, so that it becomes a double prey to its sufferings. On both sides there are extremes: David seems to have steered clear of them on the right hand and on the left.
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