Psalm 38:12-13 contrasts the schemes and accusations of enemies with the sufferer's response: he behaves like one who does not hear and whose mouth offers no reply. In context, this silence reflects helplessness and reliance upon God rather than an inability to answer.

Matthew 27:12-14 records Jesus remaining silent before the accusations of the chief priests and elders, astonishing Pilate by refusing to answer the charges. Isaiah 53:7 provides the more explicit prophetic background for the Messiah's silence, but Psalm 38 offers a parallel righteous-sufferer pattern. The connection is therefore best understood typologically: Jesus, like the psalmist, does not attempt to save Himself through argument but entrusts the outcome to God.