Psalms 38:14 - Compare All Versions

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Lord, my longings are sitting in plain sight, my groans an old story to you. My heart’s about to break; I’m a burned-out case. Cataracts blind me to God and good; old friends avoid me like the plague. My cousins never visit, my neighbors stab me in the back. My competitors blacken my name, devoutly they pray for my ruin. But I’m deaf and mute to it all, ears shut, mouth shut. I don’t hear a word they say, don’t speak a word in response. What I do, GOD, is wait for you, wait for my Lord, my God—you will answer! I wait and pray so they won’t laugh me off, won’t smugly strut off when I stumble.

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, And in whose mouth are no arguments.

I am like those who do not hear, who have no answer to give.

Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.

I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.

Thus I am like a man who does not hear, And in whose mouth is no response.

Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, In whose mouth are no arguments.

I choose to hear nothing, and I make no reply.

I’m like a deaf man who no longer hears. I can’t even speak up, and words fail me; I have no argument to counter their threats.

I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.