Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
I was dumb with silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
New American Standard Bible
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And my
King James Version
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Holman Bible
I kept silent, even from speaking good,
and my pain intensified.
International Standard Version
I was as silent as a mute person; I said nothing, not even something good, and my distress deepened.
A Conservative Version
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good, and my sorrow was stirred.
American Standard Version
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.
Amplified
I was mute and silent [before my enemies],
I refrained even from good,
And my
Bible in Basic English
I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.
Darby Translation
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Julia Smith Translation
I was dumb with silence, I was silent from good, and my pain was moved.
King James 2000
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I was mute [with] silence. I was silent [even] from [saying] good [things], and my pain was stirred up.
Modern King James verseion
I became dumb, keeping still; I was silent, from good; and my pain was stirred.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I held my tongue; I was dumb. I kept silence, yea even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me.
NET Bible
I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew;
New Heart English Bible
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
The Emphasized Bible
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, afar from happiness, But, my pain had been stirred:
Webster
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
World English Bible
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 39:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fleeting Nature Of Life
1 To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.' 2 I was dumb with silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited. 3 Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 32:19-20
Lo, my breast is as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up.
Psalm 38:13-14
And I, as deaf, hear not. And as a dumb one who openeth not his mouth.
Isaiah 53:7
It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.
Matthew 7:6
Ye may not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.
Matthew 27:12-14
And in his being accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not answer any thing,
Acts 4:20
for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'