Psalms 39

Psalms 39:1

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

I have set down this constant resolution in my heart, that I will look carefully to myself; and however my affliction be very great, yet that I will not give my tongue leave to break into any impatient or unbesemming speeches, while it pleaseth God to exercise me with the malice of wicked men.

Psalms 39:2

I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

I refrained my tongue from speaking that, which I might have justly said in my own defence, and in their reproof and conviction, though I were so much the more pained in my suppression thereof.