Ecclesiastes 3:7

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Micah 7:5

Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Acts 4:20

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Lamentations 3:28

He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.

Joel 2:13

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 repents him 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 slaves and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, said the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies 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 defended cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the 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 dumb 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 rent his clothes; and he passed by on the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.

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 does send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? why consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.

1 Kings 21:27

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on 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 that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

2 Samuel 1:11

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

Genesis 44:34

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure 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 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.

Genesis 37:34

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on 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

Then Peter arose and went with them. 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.

Jeremiah 36:24

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

Job 2:13

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time to get, 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 asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spoke, he told him not.

2 Kings 18:36

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