I was as # 18_JOB_17_06  He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. ## He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. 
I was as # 19_PSA_38_13 # But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth. 
I was as # 19_PSA_38_14 # Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs. 
I was as # 19_PSA_73_22 # So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.