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13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth{H8799)} not his mouth.
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I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)In these verses, I. David complains of the power and malice of his enemies, who, it should seem, not only took occasion from the weakness of his body and the trouble of his mind to insult over him, but took advantage thence to do him a mischief. He has a great deal to say against them, which he humbly offers as a reason why God should appear for him, as Ps. 25:19; Consider my enemies . 1. “They ar…
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