But, as one deaf, that heareth not, I suffer'd all to pass; I as a dumb man did become, whose mouth not open'd was:
Dumb was I, op'ning not my mouth, because this work was thine.
With silence I as dumb became, I did myself restrain From speaking good; but then the more increased was my pain.
I err'd not from them, though for me the wicked snares did set.