I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
Parallel translations
- KJV I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
- BSB I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
- NKJV I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; And my sorrow was stirred up.
- NASB I was mute and silent, I refused to say even something good, And my pain was stirred up.
- NLT But as I stood there in silence— not even speaking of good things— the turmoil within me grew worse.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Matt 27:12–14When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
- Acts 4:20for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
- Ps 38:13–14But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
- Isa 53:7He 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.
- Matt 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.
- Job 32:19–20Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
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