Psalm 39:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³ I felt a fire burning inside,
    and the more I thought,
the more it burned,
    until at last I said:
⁴ “Please, Lord,
show me my future.
    Will I soon be gone?
⁵ You made my life short,
so brief that the time
    means nothing to you.

“Human life is but a breath,