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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Psalms 38:14

Thus I was as a man that heareth not; and in whose mouth are no reproofes.

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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth.
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 seeke after my life, lay snares for me: and they that seeke my hurt, speake mischieuous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deafe man, heard not; and I was as a dumbe man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not; and in whose mouth are no reproofes. 15 For in thee, O Lord, doe I hope: thou wilt heare, O Lord my God. 16 For I said, heare me, least otherwise they should reioyce ouer me: when my foot slippeth, they magnifie themselues against me. 17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. 18 For I will declare mine iniquitie; I will be sory for my sinne. 19 But mine enemies are liuely, and they are strong: and they that hate mee wrongfully, are multiplied. 20 They also that render euill for good, are mine aduersaries: because I follow the thing that good is. 21 Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not farre from 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 had said vnto the seruant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet vs? and the seruant had said, It is my master: therefore shee tooke a vaile and couered her selfe.
Genesis 38:11
Then said Iudah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remaine a widow at thy fathers house, til Shelah my sonne be growen: (for he said, Lest peraduenture he die also as his brethren did) and Tamar went and dwelt in her fathers house.
Genesis 38:13
And it was told Lamar, saying, Behold, thy father in law goeth vp to Timnath to sheare his sheepe.
Genesis 38:26
And Iudah acknowledged them, and said, She hath bin more righteous then I: because that I gaue her not to Shelah my sonne: and he knew her againe no more.
Proverbs 7:12
Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner.)
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift vp thine eyes vnto the high places, and see where thou hast not bene lien with: in the wayes hast thou sate for them, as the Arabian in the wildernesse, and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredomes, and with thy wickednes.
Ezekiel 16:25
Thou hast built thy high place at euery head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feete to euery one that passed by, and multiplied thy whooredomes.

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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