# Psalm 39 ## Psalm 39:1 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] 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. - [YLT] 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.' ### Notes on Psalm 39:1 - ## Psalm 39:2 - [KJV] I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, *even* from good; and my sorrow was stirred. - [ASV] I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred. - [YLT] I was dumb *with* silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited. ### Notes on Psalm 39:2 - ## Psalm 39:3 - [KJV] My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: *then* spake I with my tongue, - [ASV] My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: *Then* spake I with my tongue: - [YLT] Hot *is* my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue. ### Notes on Psalm 39:3 - ## Psalm 39:4 - [KJV] LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it *is; that* I may know how frail I *am*. - [ASV] Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am. - [YLT] 'Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it *is*,' I know how frail I *am*. ### Notes on Psalm 39:4 - ## Psalm 39:5 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] 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* - [YLT] Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age *is* as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity *is* every man set up. Selah. ### Notes on Psalm 39:5 - ## Psalm 39:6 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] 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. - [YLT] Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, *in* vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them. ### Notes on Psalm 39:6 - ## Psalm 39:7 - [KJV] And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope *is* in thee. - [ASV] And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee. - [YLT] And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it *is* of Thee. ### Notes on Psalm 39:7 - ## Psalm 39:8 - [KJV] Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. - [ASV] Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish. - [YLT] From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not. ### Notes on Psalm 39:8 - ## Psalm 39:9 - [KJV] I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst *it*. - [ASV] I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it. - [YLT] I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done *it*. ### Notes on Psalm 39:9 - ## Psalm 39:10 - [KJV] Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. - [ASV] Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. - [YLT] Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed. ### Notes on Psalm 39:10 - ## Psalm 39:11 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] 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* - [YLT] With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity *is* every man. Selah. ### Notes on Psalm 39:11 - ## Psalm 39:12 - [KJV] 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*. - [ASV] Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were. - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on Psalm 39:12 - ## Psalm 39:13 - [KJV] O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. - [ASV] Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. - [YLT] Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not! ### Notes on Psalm 39:13 -