Psalms 39:2
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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Psalms 39:2
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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Psalms 39:1
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Psalms 39:2
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Psalms 39:3
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
Psalms 39:4
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Psalms 39:9
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
Psalms 39:10
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Lamentations 3:28
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Job 2:13
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
Job 13:5
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Proverbs 11:12
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Ecclesiastes 3:7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Amos 8:3
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
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Psalms 38:13
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Psalms 38:14
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Matthew 27:12
And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
Matthew 27:13
Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
Matthew 27:14
And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
Acts 8:32
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
1 Peter 2:23
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
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Job 32:18
For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
Job 32:19
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
Job 32:20
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
Jeremiah 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Acts 4:20
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
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James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Proverbs 13:3
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
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2 Samuel 16:10
And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
2 Samuel 16:11
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
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Psalms 22:2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
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