Psalms 39:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he replied,“You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.
  • 2 Sam 16:10 : 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?’”
  • Job 1:21 : 21 He said,“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!”
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Moses then said to Aaron,“This is what the LORD spoke:‘Among the ones close to me I will show myself holy, and in the presence of all the people I will be honored.’” So Aaron kept silent.
  • 1 Sam 3:18 : 18 So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli said,“The LORD will do what he pleases.”
  • Job 40:4-5 : 4 “Indeed, I am completely unworthy– how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself. 5 I have spoken once, but I cannot answer; twice, but I will say no more.”
  • Ps 38:13 : 13 But I am like a deaf man– I hear nothing; I am like a mute who cannot speak.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him,‘What have you done?’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 39:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    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;

    3my anxiety intensified. As I thought about it, I became impatient. Finally I spoke these words:

  • Ps 38:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13But I am like a deaf man– I hear nothing; I am like a mute who cannot speak.

    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!

  • Ps 39:10
    77%

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

  • Ps 39:8
    76%

    8Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion! Do not make me the object of fools’ insults!

  • Prov 31:8
    73%

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

  • Isa 50:5
    72%

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

  • Ps 73:22
    72%

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

  • Ps 50:21
    72%

    21When you did these things, I was silent, so you thought I was exactly like you. But now I will condemn you and state my case against you!

  • Job 40:4
    71%

    4“Indeed, I am completely unworthy– how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

  • Isa 38:15
    71%

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

  • Job 13:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

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

    20Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:

  • Dan 10:15
    71%

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

  • 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 31:22
    71%

    22I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

  • Ezek 33:22
    70%

    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.

  • Job 33:2
    70%

    2See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.

  • Ps 51:15
    70%

    15O Lord, give me the words! Then my mouth will praise you.

  • Job 33:8
    70%

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

  • Job 42:3
    70%

    3you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.

  • Ps 32:3
    70%

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

  • Prov 30:32
    69%

    32If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth!

  • Ps 109:1
    69%

    1For the music director, a psalm of David. O God whom I praise, do not ignore me!

  • Ps 31:14
    69%

    14But I trust in you, O LORD! I declare,“You are my God!”

  • Job 29:9-11
    3 verses
    69%

    9the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;

    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 6:24
    69%

    24No Sin Discovered“Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.

  • Job 10:7
    69%

    7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

  • Ps 109:27
    69%

    27Then they will realize this is your work, and that you, LORD, have accomplished it.

  • Ps 69:5
    69%

    5O God, you are aware of my foolish sins; my guilt is not hidden from you.

  • Job 9:35
    69%

    35Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

  • Jer 11:19
    69%

    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 31:34
    69%

    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–

  • Ezek 16:63
    69%

    63Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent because of your disgrace when I make atonement for all you have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

  • Ezek 3:26
    68%

    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 21:5
    68%

    5Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.

  • Lam 3:28
    68%

    28י(Yod) Let a person sit alone in silence, when the LORD is disciplining him.

  • Ps 116:10
    68%

    10I had faith when I said,“I am severely oppressed.”

  • Ps 77:4
    68%

    4You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak.

  • Job 15:6
    68%

    6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.

  • Job 13:13
    68%

    13“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

  • Job 9:28
    68%

    28I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

  • Job 33:31
    68%

    31Pay attention, Job– listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

  • Job 32:14
    68%

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

  • Job 31:23
    68%

    23For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.