Psalms 38:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But I am like a deaf man– I hear nothing; I am like a mute who cannot speak.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 39:2 : 2 I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew;
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I am silent and cannot open my mouth because of what you have done.
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.
  • 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly.
  • 2 Sam 16:10-12 : 10 But the king said,“What do we have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the LORD has said to him,‘Curse David!’, who can say to him,‘Why have you done this?’” 11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants,“My own son, my very own flesh and blood, is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the LORD has spoken to him. 12 Perhaps the LORD will notice my affliction and this day grant me good in place of his curse.”

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 38:14-16
    3 verses
    90%

    14I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense.

    15Yet I wait for you, O LORD! You will respond, O Lord, my God!

    16I have prayed for deliverance, because otherwise they will gloat over me; when my foot slips they will arrogantly taunt me.

  • Ps 39:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9I am silent and cannot open my mouth because of what you have done.

    10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

  • Ps 39:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of David. I decided,“I will watch what I say and make sure I do not sin with my tongue. I will put a muzzle over my mouth while in the presence of an evil man.”

    2I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew;

  • Isa 42:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

    19My servant is truly blind, my messenger is truly deaf. My covenant partner, the servant of the LORD, is truly blind.

    20You see many things, but don’t comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear.”

  • Ps 135:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,

    17and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.

  • Ps 38:12
    73%

    12Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.

  • Isa 50:5
    73%

    5The Sovereign LORD has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.

  • Ezek 33:22
    72%

    22Now the hand of the LORD had been on me the evening before the refugee reached me, but the LORD opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak.

  • Dan 10:15
    72%

    15While he was saying this to me, I was flat on the ground and unable to speak.

  • Prov 31:8
    72%

    8Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.

  • Ps 31:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.

    13For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.

  • Isa 53:7
    71%

    7He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.

  • Ps 22:13
    71%

    13They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.

  • Ps 32:3
    71%

    3When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.

  • Ps 38:8
    71%

    8I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.

  • Matt 13:13
    70%

    13For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

  • Jer 11:19
    70%

    19Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying,“Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”

  • Job 29:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10the voices of the nobles fell silent, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.

    11Job’s Benevolence“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

  • Job 13:19
    70%

    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

  • Job 31:34
    70%

    34because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors–

  • Isa 38:13-15
    3 verses
    70%

    13I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

    14Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O Lord, I am oppressed; help me!

    15What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.

  • Isa 32:3
    70%

    3Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

  • Ezek 3:26
    69%

    26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.

  • Job 32:14-16
    3 verses
    69%

    14Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

    15Job’s Friends Failed to Answer“They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

    16And I have waited. But because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more,

  • Isa 29:18
    69%

    18At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

  • Job 33:8
    69%

    8Elihu Rejects Job’s Plea of Innocence“Indeed, you have said in my hearing(I heard the sound of the words!):

  • Prov 5:13
    69%

    13For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.

  • Ps 115:6
    69%

    6ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell,

  • Job 13:17
    69%

    17Listen carefully to my words; let your ears be attentive to my explanation.

  • Ps 88:4
    69%

    4They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,

  • Job 29:21
    69%

    21Job’s Reputation“People listened to me and waited silently; they kept silent for my advice.

  • Ezek 24:27
    69%

    27On that day you will be able to speak again; you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

  • Ps 73:22
    69%

    22I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.

  • Ps 55:12
    69%

    12Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him.

  • Job 30:20
    69%

    20I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.

  • Acts 8:32
    69%

    32Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this:“He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

  • Job 3:16
    68%

    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?