Psalms 39:9
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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Psalms 39:9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
You will understand this verse much better if we read it in another tense as it should be: "Now I will be dumb, I will not open my mouth, because thou didst it." David was wrong the first time when he was dumb, but he is right this second time. Two things may be very like one another outwardly, yet very different inwardly. There is a silence which the Christian ought to keep.