12 Those who seek my life set traps,
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.(A)

13 I am like a deaf person; I do not hear.
I am like a speechless person
who does not open his mouth.(B)
14 I am like a man who does not hear
and has no arguments in his mouth.(C)

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12 Those who want to kill me set their traps,(A)
    those who would harm me talk of my ruin;(B)
    all day long they scheme and lie.(C)

13 I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,(D)
    like the mute, who cannot speak;
14 I have become like one who does not hear,
    whose mouth can offer no reply.

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