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Psalm 38:14 (WEB)
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Fathers and councils · 8

Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 14
“The Psalmist says, And I became as a man that heareth not; and in whose mouth are no reproofs; and again, But I was as a deaf man and heard not; and as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. 14.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 38
““And I became as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs” (ver. 14).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 69
“…that there might be fulfilled that which in another Psalm hath been said, “I have become as it were a man not hearing, and having not in his mouth reproofs.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. 14.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 17
“Thus I was as a man that heareth not.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. 13, 14.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 108
“…“I as a deaf man heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth:” and “I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. 14.
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Basil the Great, Letters Letter 223
“In my own case this is now the third year of my silence, and my boast has become like that of the Psalmist, “I was as a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofs.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. 14.
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Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of Antony §10
“And again: “But I was as a deaf man and heard not, and as a dumb man who openeth not his mouth, and I became as a man who heareth not.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. 14.
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John Cassian, The Institutes IV.41Book IV
“…deaf man and heard not and as one that is dumb who doth not open his mouth; and I became as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth there are no reproofs,” so you also should walk as one that is deaf and dumb and blind, so that—putting aside the contemplation of him who has been rightly chosen by you as your…” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvii. (xxxviii.) 14, 15.
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