Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 38:13

13. But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man, that openeth not his mouth .

I carried my self towards them, as if I had no Ears to hear, what they said either to me, or for me, nor a Tongue to Answer, or reprove them for their Reproaches and Calumnies. Which he did not for want of just Answers to them, but to testifie his Humiliation for his sins, and his patient Submission to, and Acceptation of the Punishment which he had brought upon himself. Of which see an instance, 2 Sam. 16. 10, 11, 12. Wherein also he was an eminent Type of Christ, who when he was reviled, reviled not again, 1 Pet. 2. 23.