Ecclesiastes 3:7

Modern King James 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

Put no trust in a friend; put no hope in a guide; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

Amos 5:13

So the understanding ones shall keep silent 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 laid it on him.

Joel 2:13

Yes, tear your heart and not your robes, and turn to Jehovah your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He pities because of the evil.

Esther 7:4

For we are sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to perish. But if we had been sold for men-slaves and women-slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could not make up for the king's damage.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, says the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many. In every place one shall throw them out, saying, Hush!

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For Jehovah our God has put us to silence, and has given us poisonous water to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

Isaiah 36:21

But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the king's command, saying, Do not answer him.

Psalm 39:2

I became dumb, keeping still; I was silent, from good; and my pain was stirred.

2 Kings 6:30

And it happened when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And he passed by on the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth inside on his flesh.

2 Kings 5:7

And it happened when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to recover a man from his leprosy? For consider now, and see, for he is coiling himself toward me.

1 Kings 21:27

And it happened when Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth and walked softly.

2 Samuel 3:31

And David said to Joab and to all the people with him, Tear your clothes and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And King David followed the bier.

2 Samuel 1:11

And David took hold on his garments, and tore them. And likewise all the men with him did so.

Genesis 44:34

For how shall I go up to my father, and the boy is not with me lest perhaps I see the evil that will find my father?

Genesis 44:18

And Judah came near him and said, O my lord, pray let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and do not let your anger burn against your servant, for you are even as Pharaoh.

Genesis 37:34

And Jacob tore his clothes, 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 tore his clothes.

Acts 9:39

And rising up, Peter went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. And all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet the king and all his servants who heard these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments.

Job 2:13

And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. And no one 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 throw away;

1 Samuel 10:16

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

2 Kings 18:36

But the people kept silent and did not answer him a word. For the king's command was, saying, Do not answer him.