¹大衛的詩，交給詩班長耶杜頓。我曾說：“我要謹慎我的行為，不讓我的舌頭犯罪；惡人在我面前的時候，我總要用罩子約束我的嘴。”

¹I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

²我靜默不出聲，甚至連好話也不說（“甚至連好話也不說”或譯：“我安靜也得不到安慰”），我的痛苦就更加劇烈。

²I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

³我的心在我裡面發熱；我默想的時候，心裡火燒；我就用舌頭說話：

³My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

⁴“耶和華啊！求你使我知道我的結局，我的壽數有多少，使我知道我的生命多麼短促。

⁴“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

⁵你使我的日子窄如手掌，我的一生在你面前如同無有；各人站得最穩的時候，也只不過是一口氣。（細拉）

⁵Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

⁶世人來來往往只是幻影，他們忙亂也是虛空；積聚財物，卻不知道誰要來收取。

⁶“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

⁷主啊！現在我還等候甚麼呢？我的指望在乎你。

⁷Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

⁸求你救我脫離我的一切過犯，不要使我遭受愚頑人的羞辱。

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

⁹因為是你作了這事，我就靜默不開口。

⁹I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

¹⁰求你除掉你降在我身上的災禍；因你手的責打，我就消滅。

¹⁰Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

¹¹你因人的罪孽，藉著責罰管教他們，叫他們所寶貴的消失，像被蟲蛀蝕；世人都不過是一口氣。（細拉）

¹¹When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

¹²耶和華啊！求你垂聽我的禱告，留心聽我的呼求；我流淚，求你不要緘默；因為我在你面前是客旅，是寄居的，像我所有的祖先一樣。

¹²“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

¹³求你不要怒視我，使我在去而不返之先，可以喜樂。”

¹³Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”