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.”
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.
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.
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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 27:14
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.
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Job 32:19
Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
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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.
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