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38:1 in finem Idithun canticum David	38:1. Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.
38:2 dixi custodiam vias meas ut non delinquam in lingua mea posui ori meo custodiam cum consisteret peccator adversum me	38:2. I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.
38:3 obmutui et humiliatus sum et silui a bonis et dolor meus renovatus est	38:3. I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.
38:4 concaluit cor meum intra me et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis	38:4. My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditqation a fire shall flame out.
38:5 locutus sum in lingua mea notum fac mihi Domine finem meum et numerum dierum meorum quis est ut sciam quid desit mihi	38:5. I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.
38:6 ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te verumtamen universa vanitas omnis homo vivens diapsalma	38:6. Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vantiy: every man living.
38:7 verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo sed et frustra conturbatur thesaurizat et ignorat cui congregabit ea	38:7. Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.
38:8 et nunc quae est expectatio mea nonne Dominus et substantia mea apud te est	38:8. And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.
38:9 ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me obprobrium insipienti dedisti me	38:9. Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.
38:10 obmutui et non aperui os meum quoniam tu fecisti	38:10. I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.
38:11 amove a me plagas tuas	38:11. Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
38:12 a fortitudine manus tuae ego defeci in increpationibus propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam eius verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo diapsalma	38:12. Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.
38:13 exaudi orationem meam Domine et deprecationem meam auribus percipe lacrimas meas ne sileas quoniam advena sum apud te et peregrinus sicut omnes patres mei	38:13. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
38:14 remitte mihi ut refrigerer priusquam abeam et amplius non ero	38:14. O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

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