Ecclesiastes 3:7

Modern English Version

a time to tear up, and a time to mend together; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;

Cross References

Genesis 37:29

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes.

Genesis 37:34

Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his waist and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 44:18

Then Judah approached him and said, “O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh.

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest perhaps I see the evil that would find my father?”

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, as did all of the men who were with him.

2 Samuel 3:31

David said to Joab and all of the people with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” As for King David, he followed behind the bier.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and walked meekly.

2 Kings 18:36

But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”

2 Kings 5:7

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to give life, that this man sends a man to me to take away his leprosy? But consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was walking across the city wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If only we had been sold as male and female slaves, I could have kept quiet, for that distress would not be sufficient to trouble the king.”

Job 2:13

Then they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights. Meanwhile, no one was speaking to him at all because they saw that his pain was severe.

Psalm 39:2

I was mute in silence; I held my peace to no avail, but my anguish grew worse.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek out, and a time to give up; a time to guard, and a time to cast away;

Isaiah 36:21

But they held their peace, and answered him not a word, for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.”

Jeremiah 36:24

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

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter the fortified cities and let us perish there. For the Lord our God has doomed us and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him;

Joel 2:13

Rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and He relents from punishing.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent are silent at such a time, for it is an evil time.

Amos 8:3

“The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day,” says the Lord God. “The corpses shall be many, cast down everywhere. Hush!”

Micah 7:5

Do not trust in a companion, do not rely on a friend; from her who lies in your embrace, guard the doors of your mouth.

Acts 4:20

For we cannot help but declare what we have seen and heard.”

Acts 9:39

Peter rose up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

1 Samuel 10:16

Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys were found.” But the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not mention.