Self-interpreting Bible

0 To the chief Musician, even to ^aJeduthun, A Psalm of David.

• a: 1Ch. 25:1 , 1Ch. 16:41 , Psalms 62 , Psalms 77

1 I SAID, ^bI will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep ¹my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

• b: Pr. 21:23 , Ja. 3:2 - 8 , Ja. 1:19 , Ja. 1:26 , Ps. 141:3 , Am. 5:13 , Col. 4:5
• 1: Heb. a bridle or muzzle for my mouth.

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

• c: Ps. 38:13 , Ps. 38:14 , Je. 20:9
• 2: Heb. troubled.

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

• d: Ps. 32:3 , Ps. 32:4 , Job 32:19 , Job 3:1 , Job 6:11 , Job 7:15 , Job 7:16 , Je. 20:9 , Je. 20:14 , 4:8 , Lu. 24:32

4 LORD, ^emake me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know ³how frail I am.

• e: De. 32:29 , Ps. 90:12 , Ps. 119:84 , Ps. 89:47 , Ps. 89:48
• 3: Or, what time I have here.

5 Behold, ^fthou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: ^g*verily every man at his ⁴best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

• f: Job 7:1 , Job 7:6 , Job 7:7 , Job 7:9 , Job 9:25 , Job 9:26 , Job 14:2 , Job 14:5 , Job 20:8 , Ps. 90:4 , Ps. 90:5 , Ps. 90:9 , Ps. 102:11 , Ps. 103:15 , Ec. 8:13 , Ja. 4:14 , 2Pe. 3:8
• g: Ps. 62:9 , Ps. 144:4 , Is. 40:17 , Job 14:2
• *: verily-indeed, truly.
• 4: Heb. settled.

6 Surely every man walketh in ⁵a vain shew: ^hsurely they are disquieted in vain: ⁱhe heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

• 5: Heb. an image. 1Ch. 29.15. Ep. 4.17. , 1Ch. 29:15 , Ep. 4:17
• h: Ps. 144:4
• i: Job 27:17 , Ec. 2:18 , Ec. 2:19 , Ec. 2:21 , Ec. 2:26 , Ec. 5:13 - 16 , Hab. 2:6 - 13 , Lu. 12:16 - 21 , Ps. 49:10

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

• j: Ps. 119:81 , Ps. 119:114 , Ps. 119:166 , Ps. 130:5 , Ps. 130:7

8 ^kDeliver me from all my transgressions: ^lmake me not the reproach of the foolish.

• k: Ps. 25:11 , Ps. 65:3 , Ps. 32:1 , Ps. 32:2 , Ps. 130:8 , Tit. 2:14 , 1Jn. 3:8
• l: Ps. 44:13 , Ps. 57:3 , Ps. 89:50 , Ps. 119:22 , 2:19

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

• m: Le. 10:3 , Job 40:4 , Job 40:5 , 1Sa. 3:18 , 2Sa. 16:10 , Da. 4:35 , Ps. 39:2

10 Remove ⁿthy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the ⁶blow of thine hand.

• n: Job 9:34 , Job 13:21 , Ps. 25:16 - 18
• 6: Heb. conflict.

11 When ^othou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest ⁷his beauty to ^pconsume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

• o: Is. 17:13 , Is. 51:20 , Is. 66:15
• 7: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away.
• p: Job 4:19 , Job 13:28 , Is. 50:9 , Is. 51:8 , Ho. 5:12

12 Hear ^qmy prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; ^rhold not thy peace at my tears: for ^sI am a stranger with thee, and a ^*sojourner, as all my fathers were.

• q: Ps. 4:1 , Ps. 5:1 , Ps. 5:2 , Ps. 83:1 , Ps. 130:1 , Ps. 130:2 , Ps. 56:8
• r: Ps. 28:1
• s: Le. 25:23 , 1Ch. 29:15 , Ge. 47:9 , Ps. 119:19 , He. 11:13 , 1Pe. 2:11 , 1Pe. 1:17
• *: sojourner-dweller for a time.

13 O ^tspare me, that I may ^urecover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

• t: Job 7:19 , Job 10:20 , Job 10:21 , Job 14:6 , Ge. 5:24 , Ge. 37:30 , Ge. 42:36
• u: Job 9:27