Psalm 38:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But I am like the deaf; I do not hear; like the mute, who cannot speak.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; And I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But I, like a deaf man, hear not; and I am like a dumb man who opens not his mouth.

American Standard Version (1901)

But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Common English Bible

But I’m like someone who is deaf, who can’t hear; like someone who can’t speak, whose mouth won’t open.

Catholic Public Domain Version

O Lord, heed my prayer and my supplication. Pay attention to my tears. Do not be silent. For I am a newcomer with you, and a sojourner, just as all my fathers were.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalm 38:13 Cross References

Psalm 119:110

The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts.

Psalm 39:2

I was silent and still; I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse;

Psalm 39:9

I am silent; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

1 Peter 2:23

When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.