¶But I, like a deaf man, do not hear; And I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
The wicked have laid a snare for me, Yet I have not wandered from Your precepts.
I was mute with silence, I even kept silent from speaking good, And my anguish grew worse.
“I have become mute, I do not open my mouth, Because it is You who have done it.
¶He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.
who being reviled, was not reviling in return; while suffering, He was uttering no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously.