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Bishop's Bible

Psalms 38:14

I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Conviction;   Meekness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - David;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deafness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Reproof;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Zion;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 5;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am like a man who does not hearand has no arguments in his mouth.
Hebrew Names Version
Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, In whose mouth are no reproofs.
King James Version
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
English Standard Version
I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
New Century Version
I am like those who do not hear, who have no answer to give.
New English Translation
I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense.
Amplified Bible
Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, In whose mouth are no arguments.
New American Standard Bible
Yes, I am like a person who does not hear, And in whose mouth are no arguments.
World English Bible
Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, In whose mouth are no reproofs.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.
Legacy Standard Bible
And I am like a man who does not hear,And in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Berean Standard Bible
I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
Contemporary English Version
I am completely deaf and can't make a sound.
Complete Jewish Bible
But I'm like a deaf man — I don't hear it; and, like a mute, I don't say a word.
Darby Translation
Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Easy-to-Read Version
I am like those who cannot hear what people are saying about them. I cannot answer to prove my enemies wrong.
George Lamsa Translation
Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth is no reproof.
Good News Translation
I am like those who do not answer, because they cannot hear.
Lexham English Bible
And so I am like a man who hears not, and in whose mouth there are no retorts.
Literal Translation
And I am as a man who is not hearing, and who has no rebukes in his mouth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am become as a man that heareth not, and that can make no resistaunce wt his mouth.
American Standard Version
Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Bible in Basic English
So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But I am as a deaf man, I hear not; and I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
King James Version (1611)
Thus I was as a man that heareth not; and in whose mouth are no reproofes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.
English Revised Version
Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y am maad as a man not herynge; and not hauynge repreuyngis in his mouth.
Update Bible Version
Yes, I am as a man that does not hear, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.
New King James Version
Thus I am like a man who does not hear, And in whose mouth is no response.
New Living Translation
I choose to hear nothing, and I make no reply.
New Life Bible
Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, and whose mouth does not argue.
New Revised Standard
Truly, I am like one who does not hear, and in whose mouth is no retort.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus have I become as a man who cannot hear, in whose mouth are no arguments:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(37-15) And I became as a man that heareth not: and that hath no reproofs in his mouth.
Revised Standard Version
Yea, I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
Young's Literal Translation
Yea, I am as a man who heareth not, And in his mouth are no reproofs.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, And in whose mouth are no arguments.

Contextual Overview

12 They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares [for me]: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long. 13 As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and [I was] as one that is dumbe [who] coulde not open his mouth. 14 I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth. 15 For on thee O God I haue wayted: thou shalt aunswere for me O Lorde my God. 16 For I sayde [heare me] lest that they shoulde triumph on me: who auaunce [them selues] greatly agaynst me when my foote doth slyp. 17 Because I am disposed to a haltyng: and my sorowe is euer in my syght. 18 Because I confesse my wickednesse: and am sory for my sinne. 19 But myne enemies lyuyng [without payne] are mightie: & they that hate me wrongfully are increased in number. 20 They also that rewarde euyl for good are agaynst me: because I folowe the thyng that is good. 21 Forsake me not O God: O my Lorde be not thou farre fro me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that heareth: Amos 5:13, Micah 7:5, Mark 15:3-5, John 8:6

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:36 - held their peace Psalms 39:2 - I was Matthew 27:12 - General Luke 23:9 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 24:65
(For she said vnto the seruaunt: what man is this, that commeth walkyng against vs in the fielde? And the seruaunt sayd, it is my maister): therfore she toke her vayle and couered her.
Genesis 38:11
Then sayde Iudas to Thamar his daughter in lawe: Remayne a wydowe at thy fathers house, tyll Selah my sonne be growen. (For he sayde, lest peraduenture he dye also as his brethren dyd.) And Thamar went & dwelt in her fathers house.
Genesis 38:13
And one tolde Thamar, saying: beholde, thy father in lawe goeth vp to Thimnath to sheare his sheepe.
Genesis 38:26
And Iuda acknowledged them, and saide: She hath ben more righteous then I, because I gaue her not Selah my sonne. And he lay with her no more.
Proverbs 7:12
Nowe is she without, nowe in the streates, and lyeth in wayte at euery corner.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift vp thine eyes to the hygh places, and loke where thou hast not ben defiled: Thou hast wayted for them in the streetes, and as a murtherer in the wildernesse, through thy whoredome and shamefull blasphemies is the lande defiled.
Ezekiel 16:25
Thou hast buylt thyne hye plate at euery head of the way, thou hast made thy beautie to be abhorred, thou hast opened thy feete to euery one that came by, and multiplied thy whoredome.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus I was as a man that heareth not,.... Any thing that is said unto him; he took no more notice of it than if he had never heard it; but bore all the railings and calumnies of men with calmness and patience;

and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs; as if he had nothing to say for himself, in vindication of his character, and to the refutation of his enemies; as if he had no arguments to make use of, for the conviction and reproof of his adversaries.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thus I was as a man that heareth not - The sentiment in the former verse is repeated here to show the greatness of his patience and forbearance, or to fix the attention on the fact that one who was so calumniated and wronged could bear it patiently.

And in whose mouth are no reproofs - As a man who never reproved another; who, whatever might be the wrong which he endured, never replied to it; as he would be who was incapable of reproof, or who had no faculty for reproving. The whole of this is designed to show his entire patience under the wrongs which he suffered.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 38:14. No reproofs. — תוכחות tochachoth, arguments or vindications; a forensic term. I was as a man accused in open court, and I could make no defence.


 
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