Ecclesiastes 3:7

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Micah 7:5

Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lays in thy bosom.

Amos 5:13

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

Acts 4:20

For we are not able not to speak what we saw and heard.

Lamentations 3:28

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

Joel 2:13

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents of the evil.

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 would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says lord LORD. The dead bodies shall be many. In every place they shall cast them forth with silence.

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 LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against LORD.

Isaiah 36:21

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

Psalm 39:2

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good, and my sorrow was stirred.

2 Kings 6:30

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

2 Kings 5:7

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? But consider, I pray you, and see ho

1 Kings 21:27

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 Samuel 3:31

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

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them, and likewise all the men who were with him.

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.

Genesis 44:18

Then Judah came near to 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 are even as Pharaoh.

Genesis 37:34

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

Genesis 37:29

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

Acts 9:39

And after rising, Peter went with them, whom, after coming, they brought into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood by him weeping, and exhibiting the coats and garments, as many things as Dorcas made being with them.

Jeremiah 36:24

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

Job 2:13

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

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to cast away,

1 Samuel 10:16

And Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he did not tell him.

2 Kings 18:36

But the people were silent, and did not answer him a word, for the king's commandment was, saying, Do not answer him.