I carried myself towards them as if I had no ears to hear what they said either to me or for me, nor a tongue to answer or reprove them for their reproaches and calumnies; which he did not for, want of just answers to them, but to testify his humiliation for his sins, and his patient submission to and acceptation of the punishment which he had brought upon himself; of which see an instance, 2 Samuel 16:10-12; wherein also he was an eminent type of Christ, who, when he was reviled, reviled not again, 1 Peter 2:23.
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Psalms 38:13
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.