Psalms 39:2

World English Bible (2000)

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 32:19-20 : 19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst. 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, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth. 14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
  • Matt 27:12-14 : 12 When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many things they testify against you?" 14 He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 39:8-10
    3 verses
    82%

    8 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.

    9 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.

    10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • 1 I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

  • 3 My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

  • 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

  • Ps 38:13-14
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    13 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

    14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

  • 15 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

  • Job 29:9-10
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    9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

    10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

  • 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • 34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--

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

  • 31 Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.

  • 17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

  • 9 If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].

  • 28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

  • 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

  • 6 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

  • 2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

  • Ps 77:3-4
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    3 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

    4 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

  • 8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

  • 1 God of my praise, don't remain silent,

  • 16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

  • 27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

  • 11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 28 Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

  • 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

  • 33 If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom."

  • 24 "Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

  • 13 "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

  • 28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

  • 3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart shall utter understanding.

  • 26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."

  • 5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

  • 15 and when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.

  • 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

  • Ps 73:21-22
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    21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

    22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

  • 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • 21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

  • 17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • 2 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

  • 20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

  • 4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

  • 1 "Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.

  • 16 Shall I wait, because they don't speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

  • 10 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.