Psalms 39:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I was dumb `with' silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 32:19-20 : 19 Lo, my breast `is' as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up. 20 I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.
  • Ps 38:13-14 : 13 And I, as deaf, hear not. And as a dumb one who openeth not his mouth. 14 Yea, I am as a man who heareth not, And in his mouth are no reproofs.
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 `Ye may not give that which is `holy' to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.
  • Matt 27:12-14 : 12 And in his being accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not answer any thing, 13 then saith Pilate to him, `Dost thou not hear how many things they witness against thee?' 14 And he did not answer him, not even to one word, so that the governor did wonder greatly.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

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