“Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.”
King James Version (KJV)
141:4 Incline not - Suffer it not to be inclined. Heart - Keep me not only from wicked speeches, but from all evil motions of my heart. Dainties - The pleasures or advantages which they gain by their wickedness.
141:5 Smite - By reproofs. Break - Not hurt, but heal and greatly refresh me. Calamities - In the calamities of those righteous persons who reproved him. When they came into such calamities as those wherein he was involved he would pity them and pray for them.
Set a watch (O Lord) before my mouth: keepe the doore of my lips.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
- American Standard Version (1901)
O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
- Basic English Bible
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
- Darby Bible
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
- Webster's Bible
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
- World English Bible
Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Set a guard, O LORD, to my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible