New Revised Standard Version
I was silent and still; I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse,

Contemporary English Version
I kept completely silent, but it did no good, and I hurt even worse.

New American Bible
Mute and silent before the wicked, I refrain from good things. But my sorrow increases;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.

I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.

I was

Psalm 38:13,14 But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening his mouth. . . .

Isaiah 53:7 He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth.

Matthew 27:12-14 And when he was accused by the chief priests and ancients, he answered nothing. . . .

even

Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.

my sorrow

Job 32:19,20 Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels. . . .

Acts 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

stirred [heb.