Psalms 38:13

WEB

¹³But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

KJV

¹³But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

BSB

¹³But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.

FBV

¹³I act as if I'm deaf to what they're saying,^[+] and pretend to be dumb so I don't have to speak.

Extra References

Isaiah 53:7

⁷He 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 silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

Psalms 39:2

²I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Psalms 39:9

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

1 Peter 2:23

²³When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

2 Samuel 16:10-12

¹⁰The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

¹¹David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has invited him. ¹²It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”