But I am like the deaf; I do not hear; like the mute, who cannot speak.
The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts.
I was silent and still; I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse;
I am silent; I do not open my mouth, for 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 the slaughter and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
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.