诗篇 第 39 篇

¹（大卫的诗，交与伶长耶杜顿。）我曾说：我要谨慎我的言行，免得我舌头犯罪；恶人在我面前的时候，我要用嚼环勒住我的口。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.

²我默然无声，连好话也不出口；我的愁苦就发动了，I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

³我的心在我里面发热。我默想的时候，火就烧起，我便用舌头说话。My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

⁴耶和华啊，求你叫我晓得我身之终！我的寿数几何？叫我知道我的生命不长！LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

⁵你使我的年日窄如手掌；我一生的年数，在你面前如同无有。各人最稳妥的时候，真是全然虚幻。（细拉）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.

⁶世人行动实系幻影。他们忙乱，真是枉然；积蓄财宝，不知将来有谁收取。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.

⁷主啊，如今我等甚么呢？我的指望在乎你！And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

⁸求你救我脱离一切的过犯，不要使我受愚顽人的羞辱。Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

⁹因我所遭遇的是出于你，我就默然不语。I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

¹⁰求你把你的责罚从我身上免去；因你手的责打，我便消灭。Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

¹¹你因人的罪恶惩罚他的时候，叫他的笑容（的笑容：或译所喜爱的）消灭，如衣被虫所咬。世人真是虚幻！（细拉）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.

¹²耶和华啊，求你听我的祷告，留心听我的呼求！我流泪，求你不要静默无声！因为我在你面前是客旅，是寄居的，像我列祖一般。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.

¹³求你宽容我，使我在去而不返之先可以力量复原。O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.