⁴ Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

²⁴ But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

²³ For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

¹³ Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

¹⁴ Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

¹⁵ For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.