But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth. Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
⛓ Read Psalm 38 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I am like a deaf man... like a mute who does not open his mouth... in whose mouth are no rebukes' — the righteous sufferer's deliberate silence before accusers, a Psalmic parallel reinforcing the Isaianic silence motif.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I am like a deaf man who does not hear, like a mute who does not open his mouth' — the righteous sufferer's deliberate silence before mockers. Reinforces the silence motif alongside Isaiah 53; part of the suffering-psalm matrix Luke deploys.
Medium confidenceThe psalmist who, surrounded by accusers, becomes 'like a deaf man... like a mute man who does not open his mouth' offers a psalmic parallel to Jesus' silence under interrogation. This lament-psalm motif of the righteous keeping silence before false charges reinforces the Isaianic Servant-silence Mark foregrounds.
Medium confidenceThe suffering psalmist becomes 'like a deaf man' who 'hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs,' opening not his mouth before his accusers. The same psalm supplies later passion details (friends standing far off, v. 11), and its portrait of the afflicted righteous one mute before those who 'seek my hurt' coheres with Jesus' silence before Pilate.
Medium confidence'I, like a deaf man, do not hear... in whose mouth are no rebukes' parallels Jesus' silence before accusation (v63).
Low confidence