Psalms 38:14
12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
- KJV
- Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
- WEB
- Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
- ASV
- Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.
- DARBY
- Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
- BLB
- And I am like a man who is not hearing, and in his mouth [are] no rebukes,
- ÅB
- Ja, jeg er som en mann som ikke hører,
og som ikke har svar i munnen. - OTB
- Ja, jeg er som en som ikke hører,
Og i hvis munn det ikke er noen argumenter. - B1930
- Ja, jeg er som en mann som ikke hører, og som ikke har motsigelse i sin munn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Amos 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Read in contextJohn 8:6
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
Read in contextMark 15:3–5
And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.
Read in contextMicah 7:5
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
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