Psalms 39:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 32:19-20 : 19 Behold, my belly [is] as wine [which] hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
  • Ps 38:13-14 : 13 But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 ‹Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.›
  • Matt 27:12-14 : 12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee? 14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

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  • Ps 38:13-14
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  • Job 13:19
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