Verse 16

Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?

Referenced Verses

  • Num 32:24 : 24 So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.
  • Judg 5:15 : 15 Your chiefs, Issachar, were with Deborah; and Naphtali was true to Barak; into the valley they went rushing out at his feet. In Reuben there were divisions, and great searchings of heart.
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)
  • Ps 77:6 : 6 The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.
  • Lam 3:40-41 : 40 Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord; 41 Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
  • Num 32:1-5 : 1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle; 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting, 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle. 5 And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.