Psalms 39:3

"My heart was hot within me;

While I was musing the fire burned;

Then spake I with my tongue."

"The fire burned" (Psalms 39:3). In our view, this is the same situation that once confronted Jeremiah, who wrote: "If I say I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I am weary with forbearing, and cannot contain" (Jeremiah 20:9). There was no rebuke upon Jeremiah for this failure to keep silence; and we feel sure that none was due David for his failure to keep it here.

Silence is not the final answer to man's problems, however distressing they may be.

"The internal pressure upon David became too great; and finally he spoke."[12]