⁴ “O Lord, ^(A)make me know my end
    and what is the measure of my days;
    let me know how fleeting I am!
⁵ Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and ^(B)my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely ^(C)all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

⁵ All day long they injure my cause;^[a]
    all their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶ They ^(C)stir up strife, they ^(D)lurk;
    they ^(E)watch my steps,
    as they have waited for my life.
⁷ For their crime will they escape?
    ^(F)In wrath ^(G)cast down the peoples, O God!

⁸ You have kept count of my tossings;^{[b]
    (H)}put my tears in your bottle.
    ^(I)Are they not in your book?