Verse 7

A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
  • Gen 37:29 : 29 And Reuben returned to the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
  • Gen 37:34 : 34 And Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
  • Gen 44:18 : 18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant: for you are even as Pharaoh.
  • Gen 44:34 : 34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad is not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come upon my father.
  • 1 Sam 19:4-5 : 4 And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been very good toward you: 5 For he put his life in his hand, and killed the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel; you saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
  • 1 Sam 25:24-44 : 24 And she fell at his feet and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be; and let your maidservant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant. 25 Please do not let my lord regard this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. 26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, since the LORD has restrained you from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal. 27 And now this blessing, which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. 28 Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant, for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of the LORD, and evil has not been found in you all your days. 29 Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life; but the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God; and the lives of your enemies, He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling. 30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD has done for my lord according to all the good He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you ruler over Israel, 31 that this will be no grief to you, nor a cause of remorse of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your maidservant. 32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me. 33 And blessed is your advice, and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand. 34 For indeed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely by morning light no males would have been left to Nabal. 35 So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to your house; see, I have listened to your voice and respected your person. 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light. 37 But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. 38 And it came about ten days later that the LORD struck Nabal, and he died. 39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil; for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her to him as a wife. 40 And when the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David sent us to you, to take you to him as a wife. 41 And she arose and bowed herself with her face to the ground, and said, Behold, let your maidservant be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. 42 And Abigail hurried and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five maids accompanying her; so she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife. 43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and so both of them were his wives. 44 But Saul had given Michal, his daughter, David's wife, to Palti, the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
  • 2 Sam 1:11 : 11 Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
  • 2 Sam 3:31 : 31 And David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And King David himself followed the bier.
  • 1 Kgs 21:27 : 27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
  • 2 Kgs 5:7 : 7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? Therefore consider, please, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.
  • 2 Kgs 6:30 : 30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and he passed by on the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.
  • Esth 4:13-14 : 13 Then Mordecai instructed them to reply to Esther, "Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's house more than all the Jews. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
  • Esth 7:4 : 4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to perish. But if we had been sold as slaves, I would have remained silent, although the enemy could not compensate for the king's loss.
  • Job 2:13 : 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
  • Job 32:4-9 : 4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were older than he. 5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouths of these three men, his wrath was kindled. 6 And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; therefore I was afraid, and did not dare to show you my opinion. 7 I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom. 8 But there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding. 9 Great men are not always wise, nor do the aged understand judgment. 10 Therefore I said, Listen to me; I also will show my opinion. 11 Behold, I waited for your words; I listened to your reasoning while you sought what to say. 12 Yes, I paid attention to you, and behold, there was none of you who convinced Job or who answered his words. 13 Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God will thrust him down, not man. 14 Now he has not directed his words against me, nor will I answer him with your speeches. 15 They were amazed; they answered no more; they stopped speaking. 16 When I had waited, for they did not speak but stood still and answered no more, 17 I said, I will answer my part also, I also will show my opinion. 18 For I am full of words; the spirit within me compels me. 19 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no outlet; it is ready to burst like new wineskins. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer. 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, nor let me give flattering titles to man. 22 For I do not know how to give flattering titles; if I did, my maker would soon take me away.
  • Ps 39:2 : 2 I was silent and still, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 If you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, and those ready to be slain; 12 If you say, Behold, we did not know this; does not he who ponders the heart consider it? And he who keeps your soul, does he not know it? And shall he not render to every man according to his works?
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Speak for those who cannot speak, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
  • Isa 36:21 : 21 But they held their peace and answered him not a word, for the king's order was, Do not answer him.
  • Jer 8:14 : 14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us bitter water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
  • Jer 36:24 : 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
  • Lam 3:28 : 28 He sits alone and keeps silent, because He has laid it on him.
  • Joel 2:13 : 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil.
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, declares the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them out in silence.
  • Mic 7:5 : 5 Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.
  • Luke 19:37-40 : 37 And when he was nearing, even now 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 they had seen, 38 Saying, Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest. 39 And some of the Pharisees from among the crowd said to him, Teacher, rebuke your disciples. 40 And he answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should be silent, the stones would immediately cry out.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.