² I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.

¹⁹ Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst.

²⁰ I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.

¹³ But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

¹⁴ Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.

⁷ He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

⁶ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.

¹² And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

¹³ Then saith Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

¹⁴ And he gave him no answer, not even to one word: insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.

²⁰ for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.