Psalms 39:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 32:19-20 : 19 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no outlet; it is ready to burst like new wineskins. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
  • Ps 38:13-14 : 13 But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth. 14 Thus I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no responses.
  • 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.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
  • Matt 27:12-14 : 12 And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then Pilate said unto him, Don't you hear how many things they testify against you? 14 And he answered him to never a word, so much that the governor marveled greatly.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

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    8Deliver me from all my transgressions: do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

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    3My heart burned within me, while I was musing, the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue,

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

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    13But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

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

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

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    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?

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