² I was dumb `with' silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

¹⁹ Lo, my breast `is' as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up.

²⁰ I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.

¹³ And I, as deaf, hear not. And as a dumb one who openeth not his mouth.

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

⁷ It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.

⁶ `Ye may not give that which is `holy' to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.

¹² And in his being accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not answer any thing,

¹³ then saith Pilate to him, `Dost thou not hear how many things they witness against thee?'

¹⁴ And he did not answer him, not even to one word, so that the governor did wonder greatly.

²⁰ for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'