{"id": "card_n_8d876fba8152", "kind": "note", "title": "Psalm 39 — Psalm 39", "body": "<<For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.>> I said, \"I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.\" I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue: \"Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am. Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.\" Selah. \"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather. Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish. I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it. Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand. When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.\" Selah. \"Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were. Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.\"", "source": {"label": "Psalm 39", "url": "/canon.html?ref=Psalms%2039", "ref": "Psalms 39", "authority_tier": "scripture"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "psalms_individual", "bands": ["psalms", "psalm_039", "scripture", "psalm_39"], "connections": [{"to_card_id": "card_n_8dc492da8db7", "relationship": "same_section", "origin": "nesting_2026_06_12"}, {"to_card_id": "card_n_8d6f74a722e4", "relationship": "same_section", "origin": "nesting_2026_06_12"}], "author": "engine", "created_at": "2026-05-19T13:22:18.993364+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-19T13:22:18.993369+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "26c74de4cfa1ff556a51582e5173a2d4b757f88141a6592891c636b9c3602ee6", "witnesses": [{"class": "manuscript_tradition", "label": "Codex Sinaiticus (c. AD 350) — Greek NT + LXX", "url": "https://www.codexsinaiticus.org/", "ref": "Sinaiticus"}, {"class": "manuscript_tradition", "label": "Codex Vaticanus (c. AD 325) — Greek NT + OT", "url": "https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1209", "ref": "Vaticanus"}, {"class": "manuscript_tradition", "label": "Aleppo Codex (c. AD 920) — Masoretic Hebrew OT", "url": "https://www.aleppocodex.org/", "ref": "Aleppo"}, {"class": "critical_edition", "label": "Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece (NA28)", "url": "https://www.die-bibel.de/en/bible/NA28", "ref": "NA28"}, {"class": "critical_edition", "label": "Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS)", "url": "https://www.die-bibel.de/en/bible/BHS", "ref": "BHS"}, {"class": "translation", "label": "Septuagint (LXX) — Greek OT, 3rd cent BC", "url": "https://www.academic-bible.com/en/online-bibles/septuagint-lxx/", "ref": "LXX"}, {"class": "translation", "label": "Vulgate (Jerome, c. AD 405) — Latin", "url": "https://www.bibleserver.com/text/VUL", "ref": "Vulgate"}, {"class": "translation", "label": "King James Version (1611) — independent English translation", "url": "https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/", "ref": "KJV"}, {"class": "republication", "label": "Internet Archive — World English Bible", "url": "https://archive.org/details/worldenglishbible", "ref": "IA-WEB"}, {"class": "republication", "label": "Project Gutenberg — World English Bible", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8294", "ref": "PG-WEB"}, {"class": "non_government_archive", "label": "Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)", "url": "https://www.ccel.org/bible/", "ref": "CCEL-Bible"}], "witness_status": "passed", "witness_status_reason": "11 witnesses across 5 independence classes: ['critical_edition', 'manuscript_tradition', 'non_government_archive', 'republication', 'translation']", "surface": "witness"}