Verse 2

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

Referenced Verses

• Job 32:19-20 : 19 Inside I am like wine which has no outlet, like new wineskins ready to burst! 20 I will speak, so that I may find relief; I will open my lips, so that I may answer.
• Ps 38:13-14 : 13 But I am like a deaf man– I hear nothing; I am like a mute who cannot speak. 14 I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense.
• 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.
• Matt 7:6 : 6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.
• Matt 27:12-14 : 12 But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond. 13 Then Pilate said to him,“Don’t you hear how many charges they are bringing against you?” 14 But he did not answer even one accusation, so that the governor was quite amazed.
• Acts 4:20 : 20 for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”