13 Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from deceitful speech.(A)

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Psalm 39

The Fleeting Nature of Life

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.

I said, “I will guard my ways
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”(A)

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Lord, set up a guard for my mouth;
keep watch at the door of my lips.(A)

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for we all stumble in many ways.(A) If anyone does not stumble in what he says,[a] he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.[b](B)

Now when we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us,(C) we also guide the whole animal.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. James 3:2 Lit in word
  2. James 3:2 Lit to bridle the whole body
  3. James 3:3 Lit whole body

10 For the(A) one who wants to love life
and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil(B)
and his lips from speaking deceit,(C)

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