“Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.”
The psalmist describes how he is like a man who hears not and in whose mouth are no arguments. The similarity to one who cannot hear and who offers no arguments suggests the psalmist's apparent surrender and cessation of self-defense. This verse portrays complete withdrawal from the ordinary exchanges of human life.
Church Fathers on Psalms 38:14
A psalm to David himself, on the remembrance of the Sabbath. 1. What does this recollection of the Sabbath mean? What is this Sabbath? For it is with groaning that he “calls it to recollection.” You have both heard already when the Psalm was read, and you will now hear it when we shall go over it, how great is his groaning, his mourning, his tears, his misery. But happy he who is wretched after this manner! Whence the Lord also in the Gospel Matthew 5:4 called some who mourn…
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