Verse 2

I was dumme & spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.

Referenced Verses

• Job 32:19-20 : 19 Beholde, my belly is as the wine, which hath no vent, and like the new bottels that brast. 20 Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.
• Ps 38:13-14 : 13 But I as a deafe man heard not, and am as a dumme man, which openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.
• Isa 53:7 : 7 Hee was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet did he not open his mouth: hee is brought as a sheepe to the slaughter, and as a sheepe before her shearer is dumme, so he openeth not his mouth.
• Matt 7:6 : 6 Giue ye not that which is holy, to dogges, neither cast ye your pearles before swine, lest they treade them vnder their feete, and turning againe, all to rent you.
• Matt 27:12-14 : 12 And when he was accused of the chiefe Priestes, and Elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then saide Pilate vnto him, Hearest thou not howe many things they lay against thee? 14 But he answered him not to one worde, in so much that the gouernour marueiled greatly.
• Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.