Ecclesiastes 3:7

Tree of Life Version

a time to tear apart and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak;

Cross References

Micah 7:5

Do not trust in a friend. Do not trust in a close companion. Guard the openings of your mouth from her who lies on your breast.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent keep silent at such a time —for it is a distressful time.

Acts 4:20

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone and be silent, since He has laid it upon him.

Joel 2:13

Rend your heart, not your garments, and turn to Adonai, your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abundant in mercy, and relenting about the calamity due.

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, for destruction, slaughter and annihilation. If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not be worth disturbing the king.”

Amos 8:3

The songs of the palace will become howls in that day.” It is a declaration of my Lord Adonai. “So many corpses flung everywhere! Hush!

Jeremiah 8:14

“Why are we sitting here? Assemble! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For Adonai Eloheinu has silenced us and given us poisoned water to drink. For we have sinned against Adonai.

Isaiah 36:21

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

Psalm 39:2

I said: “I will guard my ways, so I will not sin with my tongue. I will muzzle my mouth while the wicked are before me.”

2 Kings 6:30

Now it came to pass when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes—as he was passing by on the wall, the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath upon his flesh.

2 Kings 5:7

Now when the king of Israel read the letter, he ripped his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man is sending to me to cure a man of his tza'arat? But please consider, and see how he is seeking a pretext against me.”

1 Kings 21:27

Now when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth and walked about subdued.

2 Samuel 3:31

Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Rend your clothes, gird with sackcloth, and lament before Abner.” King David walked behind the platform.

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men that were with him,

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go up to my father and the boy is not with me? Else I must see the evil that would come upon my father!”

Genesis 44:18

Then Judah approached him and said, “I beg your pardon, my lord. Please let your servant say a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t be angry with your servant, since you are like Pharaoh.

Genesis 37:34

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

Genesis 37:29

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

Acts 9:39

So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him to the upstairs room. All the widows were crying, showing all the tunics and other clothing Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words were afraid, nor tore their clothes.

Job 2:13

Then they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights. No one spoke a word to him because they saw that his pain was very great.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to discard;

1 Samuel 10:16

“He assured us that the donkeys had been found,” Saul said to his uncle. But concerning the matter of kingship about which Samuel spoke, he told him nothing.

2 Kings 18:36

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