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.

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  • John 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.

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  • Mark 15:3–5

    And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.

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  • Micah 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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