'Kept' in the Bible

“When he is carried to his grave,A guard will keep watch over his tomb.

“My feet have carefully followed His steps;I have kept His ways and not turned aside.

“They listened to me and waitedAnd kept silent for my counsel.

Because I feared the great multitude,And the contempt of families terrified me,So that I kept silence and did not acknowledge my sin and did not go out of the door?