Psalms 39:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

I was dumme & spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.

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  • Job 32:19-20 : 19 Beholde, my belly is as the wine, which hath no vent, and like the new bottels that brast. 20 Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.
  • Ps 38:13-14 : 13 But I as a deafe man heard not, and am as a dumme man, which openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 Hee was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet did he not open his mouth: hee is brought as a sheepe to the slaughter, and as a sheepe before her shearer is dumme, so he openeth not his mouth.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 Giue ye not that which is holy, to dogges, neither cast ye your pearles before swine, lest they treade them vnder their feete, and turning againe, all to rent you.
  • Matt 27:12-14 : 12 And when he was accused of the chiefe Priestes, and Elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then saide Pilate vnto him, Hearest thou not howe many things they lay against thee? 14 But he answered him not to one worde, in so much that the gouernour marueiled greatly.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 39:8-10
    3 verses
    82%

    8Deliuer me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolish.

    9I should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.

    10Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.

  • 1To the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme of Dauid. I thought, I will take heede to my wayes, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth brideled, while the wicked is in my sight.

  • 3Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,

  • 3When I helde my tongue, my bones consumed, or when I roared all the day,

  • Ps 38:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13But I as a deafe man heard not, and am as a dumme man, which openeth not his mouth.

    14Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.

  • 15What shall I say? for he hath said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall walke weakely all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.

  • Job 29:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth.

    10The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.

  • 19Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.

  • 34Though I could haue made afraid a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families did feare me: so I kept silence, and went not out of the doore.

  • 21Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell.

  • 31Marke well, O Iob, and heare me: keepe silence, and I will speake.

  • 17Surely I am ready to halte, and my sorow is euer before me.

  • 9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speake any more in his Name. But his worde was in mine heart as a burning fire shut vp in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

  • 28He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it vpon him.

  • 13For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,

  • 6Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?

  • 2Surely I haue behaued my selfe, like one wained from his mother, and kept silence: I am in my selfe as one that is wained.

  • Ps 77:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3I did thinke vpon God, & was troubled: I praied, and my spirit was full of anguish. Selah.

    4Thou keepest mine eyes waking: I was astonied and could not speake.

  • 8I am weakened and sore broken: I roare for the very griefe of mine heart.

  • 1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Holde not thy tongue, O God of my praise.

  • 16Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

  • 27If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,

  • 11Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my minde.

  • 28Euen a foole (when he holdeth his peace) is counted wise, and hee that stoppeth his lips, prudent.

  • 40I was in the day consumed with heate, and with frost in the night, and my sleepe departed from mine eyes.

  • 33If thou hast not, heare me: holde thy tongue, and I will teach thee wisedome.

  • 24Teach me, and I wil hold my tongue: & cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred.

  • 13Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.

  • 28I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.

  • 3My mouth shal speake of wisdome, and the meditation of mine heart is of knowledge.

  • 26I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.

  • 5Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!

  • 15And when he spake these wordes vnto me, I set my face towarde the grounde, and helde my tongue.

  • 18I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.

  • Ps 73:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:

    22So foolish was I & ignorant: I was a beast before thee.

  • 4And my spirit was in perplexitie in me, and mine heart within me was amased.

  • 21These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee.

  • 17Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,

  • 2Hearken vnto me, & answere me: I mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse,

  • 20Shall it be told him when I speake? Or shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?

  • 4(39:37) Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth.

  • 1At this also mine heart is astonied, & is mooued out of his place.

  • 16When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stood still and answered no more)

  • 10Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.