| | Darby | King James | American std |
| 1 | J'ai dit: Je prendrai garde à mes voies, afin que je ne pèche point par ma langue; je garderai ma bouche avec une muselière pendant que le méchant est devant moi. | I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. | I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me. |
| 2 | J'ai été muet, dans le silence; je me suis tu à l'égard du bien; et ma douleur a été excitée. | I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. | I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred. |
| 3 | Mon coeur s'est échauffé au dedans de moi; dans ma méditation le feu s'est allumé, j'ai parlé de ma langue: | My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, | My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: [Then] spake I with my tongue: |
| 4 | Éternel! fais-moi connaître ma fin, et la mesure de mes jours, ce qu'elle est; je saurai combien je suis fragile. | LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. | Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am. |
| 5 | Voici, tu m'as donné des jours comme la largeur d'une main, et ma durée est comme un rien devant toi. Certainement, tout homme qui se tient debout n'est que vanité. Sélah. | Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. | Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah |
| 6 | Certainement l'homme se promène parmi ce qui n'a que l'apparence; certainement il s'agite en vain; il amasse des biens, et il ne sait qui les recueillera. | Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. | Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
| 7 | Et maintenant, qu'est-ce que j'attends, Seigneur? Mon attente est en toi. | And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. | And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee. |
| 8 | Délivre-moi de toutes mes transgressions; ne me livre pas à l'opprobre de l'insensé. | Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. | Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
| 9 | Je suis resté muet, je n'ai pas ouvert la bouche, car c'est toi qui l'as fait. | I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. | I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it. |
| 10 | Retire de dessus moi ta plaie: je suis consumé par les coups de ta main. | Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. | Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. |
| 11 | Quand tu châties un homme, en le corrigeant à cause de l'iniquité, tu consumes comme la teigne sa beauté; certainement, tout homme n'est que vanité. Sélah. | When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. | When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah |
| 12 | Écoute ma prière, ô Éternel! et prête l'oreille à mon cri; ne sois pas sourd à mes larmes, car je suis un étranger, un hôte, chez toi, comme tous mes pères. | Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. | Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were. |
| 13 | Détourne tes regards de moi, et que je retrouve ma force, avant que je m'en aille et que je ne sois plus. | O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. | Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. Psalm 40 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. |
