¹大卫的诗，交给诗班长耶杜顿。我曾说：“我要谨慎我的行为，不让我的舌头犯罪；恶人在我面前的时候，我总要用罩子约束我的嘴。”

¹To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. — A Psalm of David. 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.`

²我静默不出声，甚至连好话也不说（“甚至连好话也不说”或译：“我安静也得不到安慰”），我的痛苦就更加剧烈。

²I was dumb [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

³我的心在我里面发热；我默想的时候，心里火烧；我就用舌头说话：

³Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.

⁴“耶和华啊！求你使我知道我的结局，我的寿数有多少，使我知道我的生命多么短促。

⁴`Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days — what it [is],` I 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无有；各人站得最稳的时候，也只不过是一口气。（细拉）

⁵Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. Selah.

⁶世人来来往往只是幻影，他们忙乱也是虚空；积聚财物，却不知道谁要来收取。

⁶Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

⁷主啊！现在我还等候什么呢？我的指望在乎你。

⁷And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope — it [is] of Thee.

⁸求你救我脱离我的一切过犯，不要使我遭受愚顽人的羞辱。

⁸From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.

⁹因为是你作了这事，我就静默不开口。

⁹I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou — Thou hast done [it].

¹⁰求你除掉你降在我身上的灾祸；因你手的责打，我就消灭。

¹⁰Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

¹¹你因人的罪孽，借着责罚管教他们，叫他们所宝贵的消失，像被虫蛀蚀；世人都不过是一口气。（细拉）

¹¹With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.

¹²耶和华啊！求你垂听我的祷告，留心听我的呼求；我流泪，求你不要缄默；因为我在你面前是客旅，是寄居的，像我所有的祖先一样。

¹²Hear 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.

¹³求你不要怒视我，使我在去而不返之先，可以喜乐。”

¹³Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!