Ecclesiastes 3:7

God Has Ordained The Ebb And Flow Of Human Activities

⁶ a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; ⁷ a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; ⁸ a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Keep Silent

Amos 5:13

Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

Genesis 37:29

And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

Genesis 37:34

And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 44:18

Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh, my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh.

Genesis 44:34

For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

1 Samuel 19:4-5

And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:

1 Samuel 25:24-44

And she fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity; and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid.

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:

2 Samuel 3:31

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David followed the bier.

1 Kings 21:27

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

2 Kings 5:7

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

2 Kings 6:30

And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes (now he was passing by upon the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

Esther 4:13-14

Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

Esther 7:4

for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.

Job 2:13

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Job 32:4-22

Now Elihu had waited to speak unto Job, because they were elder than he.

Psalm 39:2

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.

Proverbs 24:11-12

Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back.

Proverbs 31:8-9

Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.

Isaiah 36:21

But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

Jeremiah 36:24

And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

Joel 2:13

and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many: in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.

Micah 7:5

Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

Luke 19:37-40

And as he was now drawing nigh, even at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen;

Acts 4:20

for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.

Acts 9:39

And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.