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Psalm 38:13

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38:13But I am like a deaf man—I hear nothing;

I am like a mute who cannot speak.22

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Footnotes

  1. 22 I am like a deaf man … like a mute. The psalmist is like a deaf mute; he is incapable of defending himself and is vulnerable to his enemies’ deception (see v. 14).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,

like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,

like the mute, who cannot speak;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I am like a deaf person; I do not hear.

I am like a speechless person

who does not open his mouth.

NLTNew Living Translation

But I am deaf to all their threats.

I am silent before them as one who cannot speak.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But as for me, like the deaf I cannot hear,

and I am like the mute who cannot open his mouth.

KJV 1900King James Version

But I, as a deaf man, heard not;

And I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.