Psalms 38:14

I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense. ¹ 

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

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

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

I don't hear a word they say, don't speak a word in response.

So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.

Truly, I am like one who does not hear, and in whose mouth is no retort.

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

I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense. ¹ 

¹ tn Heb “and there is not in his mouth arguments.”