I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
David kept silent when accused and afflicted because he discerned that God had allowed the trial to come upon him. That quietness was not stubbornness or insensibility, but lowly submission in which he accepted the results of his own sin. Even when the censure laid upon him exceeded what was just, he committed his case to God and rested in His handling of it.
David kept silent when accused and afflicted because he discerned that God had allowed the trial to come upon him. That quietness was not stubbornness or insensibility, but lowly submission in which he accepted the results of his own sin. Even when the censure laid upon him exceeded what was just, he committed his case to God and rested in His handling of it.