Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
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Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
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Psalms 39:1
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
Psalms 39:3
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:
Psalms 39:4
“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
Psalms 39:9
I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
Psalms 39:10
Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
Lamentations 3:28
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
Job 2:13
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.
Job 13:5
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
Proverbs 11:12
One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
Ecclesiastes 3:7
a time to tear, 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! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
Amos 8:3
The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
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Psalms 38:13
But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
Psalms 38:14
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Isaiah 53:7
He 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.
Matthew 27:12
When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
Matthew 27:13
Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”
Matthew 27:14
He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
Acts 8:32
Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
Matthew 7:6
“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
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Job 32:18
For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
Job 32:19
Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
Job 32:20
I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say that I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.
Acts 4:20
for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
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James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
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2 Samuel 16:10
The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”
2 Samuel 16:11
David 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 Yahweh has invited him.
2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
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Psalms 22:2
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
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