Verse 2

I became dumbe through scilence, I helde my peace from speakyng of good wordes: but the more was my sorowe increased.

Referenced Verses

• Job 32:19-20 : 19 Beholde, my belly is as the wine, whiche hath no vent, lyke the newe bottels that bruste. 20 Therfore will I speake, that I may haue a bent: I will open my lippes, and make aunswere.
• Ps 38:13-14 : 13 As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and I was as one that is dumbe who coulde not open his mouth. 14 I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth.
• Isa 53:7 : 7 He suffered violence, and was euyll intreated, and dyd not open his mouth: He shalbe led as a sheepe to be slayne, yet shall he be as styll as a lambe before the shearer, and not open his mouth.
• Matt 7:6 : 6 Geue not that which is holy, vnto dogges, neyther caste ye your pearles before swyne, lest they treade them vnder their feete, and turning agayne, all to rent you.
• Matt 27:12-14 : 12 And when he was accused of the chiefe priestes and elders, he aunswered nothyng. 13 Then sayth Pilate vnto him: hearest thou not how many witnesses they lay agaynst thee? 14 And he aunswered hym to neuer a worde: insomuch, that the deputie marueyled greatly.
• Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speake that, which we haue seene and hearde.