Psalms 38:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

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  • Ps 39:2 : 2 I was silent and still, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I was silent, and did not open my mouth, because you did it.
  • 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 silent, so he does not open his mouth.
  • 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 Who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously:
  • 2 Sam 16:10-12 : 10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the LORD has said to him, Curse David. Who then shall say, Why have you done so? 11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth from my own body, seeks my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? Let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has bidden him. 12 It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me good for his cursing this day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 38:14-16
    3 verses
    90%

    14Thus I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no responses.

    15For in you, O LORD, do I hope; you will hear, O Lord my God.

    16For I said, 'Hear me, lest otherwise they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.'

  • Ps 39:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9I was silent, and did not open my mouth, because you did it.

    10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

  • Ps 39:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1I said, I will be careful of my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

    2I was silent and still, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

  • Isa 42:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

    19Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger whom I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?

    20Seeing many things, but you do not observe; opening the ears, but he does not hear.

  • Ps 135:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes have they, but they do not see;

    17They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • Ps 38:12
    73%

    12Those who seek my life lay snares for me, and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all day long.

  • Isa 50:5
    73%

    5The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away back.

  • Ezek 33:22
    72%

    22Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, before the one who had escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

  • Dan 10:15
    72%

    15And when he had spoken such words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and became speechless.

  • Prov 31:8
    72%

    8Speak for those who cannot speak, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

  • Ps 31:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

    13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take my life.

  • Isa 53:7
    71%

    7He 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 silent, so he does not open his mouth.

  • Ps 22:13
    71%

    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

  • Ps 32:3
    71%

    3When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

  • Ps 38:8
    71%

    8I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.

  • Matt 13:13
    70%

    13This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

  • Jer 11:19
    70%

    19But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.

  • Job 29:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10The nobles kept silence, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.

    11When the ear heard me, it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it approved me;

  • Job 13:19
    70%

    19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

  • Job 31:34
    70%

    34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, so that I kept silent and went not out of the door?

  • Isa 38:13-15
    3 verses
    70%

    13I counted till morning, that as a lion, so will He break all my bones: from day to night You make an end of me.

    14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Isa 32:3
    70%

    3And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

  • Ezek 3:26
    69%

    26And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

  • Job 32:14-16
    3 verses
    69%

    14Now he has not directed his words against me, nor will I answer him with your speeches.

    15They were amazed; they answered no more; they stopped speaking.

    16When I had waited, for they did not speak but stood still and answered no more,

  • Isa 29:18
    69%

    18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

  • Job 33:8
    69%

    8Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

  • Prov 5:13
    69%

    13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

  • Ps 115:6
    69%

    6They have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell;

  • Job 13:17
    69%

    17Listen diligently to my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

  • Ps 88:4
    69%

    4I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am as a man who has no strength:

  • Job 29:21
    69%

    21Men listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

  • Ezek 24:27
    69%

    27In that day your mouth shall be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and not be mute; and you shall be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Ps 73:22
    69%

    22So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

  • Ps 55:12
    69%

    12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it. Neither was it one who hated me that exalted himself against me; then I would have hidden from him,

  • Job 30:20
    69%

    20I cry to You, and You do not hear me: I stand up, and You regard me not.

  • Acts 8:32
    69%

    32The place in the Scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb silent before its shearer, so He did not open His mouth.

  • Job 3:16
    68%

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.