Ecclesiastes 3:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to keep 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

Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 44:18

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

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father.”

2 Samuel 1:11

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

2 Samuel 3:31

Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn over Abner.” And King David followed the bier.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

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 read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his skin disease? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.”

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard the words of the woman he tore his clothes—now since he was walking on the city wall, the people could see that he had sackcloth on his body underneath—

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace, but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.”

Job 2:13

They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

Psalm 39:2

I was silent and still; I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse;

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away;

Isaiah 36:21

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

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was alarmed, nor did they tear their garments.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.

Lamentations 3:28

to sit alone in silence when the Lord has imposed it,

Joel 2:13

rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent will keep silent in 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 dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!”

Micah 7:5

Put no trust in a friend; have no confidence in a loved one; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your embrace,

Acts 4:20

for we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Acts 9:39

So Peter got up and went with them, and when he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them.

1 Samuel 10:16

Saul said to his uncle, “He told us that the donkeys had been found.” But about the matter of the kingship, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.