Ecclesiastes 3:7

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Time to cut, and time to sew together; time to be still, and time to speak.

Cross References

Genesis 37:29

And Reuben turned again to the cistern, and found not the child; and he rent his clothes,

Genesis 37:34

And he rent his clothes, and he was clothed with an hair-shirt, and bewailed his son in much time.

Genesis 44:18

Soothly Judah nighed near, and said trustily, My lord, I pray thee, thy servant speak a word in thine ears, and be thou not wroth to thy servant; for after Pharaoh thou art my lord.

Genesis 44:34

for I may not go again to my father, if the child be absent, lest I stand a witness of the wretchedness that shall oppress my father.

2 Samuel 1:11

Forsooth David took and rent his clothes, and [all] the men that were with him;

2 Samuel 3:31

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that was with him, Rend ye your clothes, and be ye gird with sackcloths, and bewail ye before the hearses, either dirge, of Abner. Forsooth king David pursued [or followed] the bier.

1 Kings 21:27

Therefore when Ahab had heard these words, he rent his cloth, and covered his flesh with an hair-shirt, and he fasted, and slept in a sackcloth, and went with the head cast down.

2 Kings 18:36

Therefore the people was still, and answered not anything to him; for they had taken commandment of the king, that they should not answer to him.

2 Kings 5:7

And when the king of Israel had read the letters, he rent his clothes, and said, Whether I am God, that may slay and quicken, for this king sent to me, that I cure a man of his leprosy? Perceive ye, and see, that he seeketh occasions against me.

2 Kings 6:30

And when the king had heard this, he rent his clothes, and passed by the wall; and all the people saw the hair-shirt, with which the king was clothed at the flesh within;

Esther 7:4

For I and my people be given, that we be defouled, and strangled, and that we perish; O! why not had we rather been sold into servants and servantesses, for that evil might have been suffered, and I, wailing, should have been still; but now our enemy is present, whose cruelty turneth against the king.

Job 2:13

And they sat with him in the earth seven days and seven nights, and no man spake a word to him; for they saw, that his sorrow was great.

Psalm 39:2

I was dumb, and I was meeked full greatly, and was still, even from goods; and my sorrow was renewed.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

Time to get, and time to lose; time to keep, and time to cast away.

Isaiah 36:21

And they were still, and answered not to him a word. For why the king commanded to them, and said, Answer ye not to him.

Jeremiah 36:24

And the king, and all his servants, that heard all these words, dreaded not, neither rent their clothes.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why sit we? come ye together, enter we into a strong city, and be we still there; for our Lord hath made us to be still, and gave to us drink the water of gall; for we have sinned to the Lord.

Lamentations 3:28

He shall sit alone, and he shall be still; for he raised himself above himself.

Joel 2:13

and carve ye your hearts, and not your clothes, and be ye turned again to your Lord God, for he is benign, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and abiding, either forgiving, on malice.

Amos 5:13

Therefore a prudent man shall be still in that time, for the time is evil.

Amos 8:3

And the hinges, either twists, of the temple shall greatly sound in that day, saith the Lord God. Many men shall die, silence shall be cast forth in each place.

Micah 7:5

Do not ye believe to a friend, and do not ye trust in a duke; from her that sleepeth in thy bosom, keep thou the closings of thy mouth.

Acts 4:20

For we must needs speak those things, that we have seen and heard. [Forsooth we may not not speak the things that we have seen and heard.]

Acts 9:39

And Peter rose up, and came with them. And when he was come, they led him into the solar. And all the widows stood about him, weeping, and showing coats and clothes, which Dorcas made to them.

1 Samuel 10:16

And Saul said to his uncle, Samuel showed to us, that the she-asses were found. But he showed not to his uncle of the word of the realm, that Samuel spake to him.