But I am like a deaf man – I hear nothing; I am like a mute who cannot speak.
The wicked lay a trap for me, but I do not wander from your precepts.
I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew;
I am silent and cannot open my mouth because of what you have done.
He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.
When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly.