¹I 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.

¹Zborovođi. Jedutunu. Psalam. Davidov.

²I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

²Odlučio sam: "Čuvat ću put svoj da ne zgriješim jezikom; usta ću svoja zauzdati dokle god preda mnom bude bezbožnik."

³My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

³Zamukoh, zanijemjeh, glasa ne puštah, ali uzalud - bol mi postade gorča.

⁴LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

⁴U meni srce je gorjelo, na samu pomisao buknuo bi oganj; tad progovorih svojim jezikom:

⁵Behold, 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.

⁵"Objavi mi, Jahve, moj svršetak i kolika je mjera mojih dana, da znam kako sam ništavan.

⁶Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

⁶Evo, pedljem si mi dane izmjerio, život moj je kao ništa pred tobom: tek dašak je svaki čovjek.

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

⁷Poput sjene čovjek prolazi tek dašak je sve bogatstvo njegovo: zgrće, a ne zna tko će ga pokupiti."

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

⁸A sada, čemu da se nadam, Gospode? Sva je nada moja u tebi!

⁹I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

⁹Izbavi me svih mojih bezakonja, ne daj da ruglo budem luđaku!

¹⁰Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

¹⁰Šutim i usta ne otvaram, jer tako si ti učinio.

¹¹When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

¹¹Bič svoj otkloni od mene, jer izdišem pod težinom ruke tvoje.

¹²Hear 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.

¹²Ti kaznama popravljaš čovjeka i sve mu najdraže kao moljac rastačeš: tek dašak je svaki čovjek.

¹³O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

¹³Čuj, o Jahve, molitvu moju, vapaje mi poslušaj, na suze se moje ne ogluši! Jer u tebe ja sam došljak, pridošlica kao svi oci moji.

¹⁴Odvrati pogled od mene, da odahnem prije nego odem i više ne budem!