Ecclesiastes 3:7

There is a time to tear and to sew, to keep silent and to speak. Even speech and silence have their fitting seasons.

Cross-references · 29

• Mic 7:5Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
• Amos 5:13Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
• Esth 4:13–14Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.
• Lam 3:28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
• Acts 4:20for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
• Prov 31:8–9Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
• Job 32:4–22Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
• Joel 2:13Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
• Esth 7:4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
• Prov 24:11–12Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
• 1 Sam 25:24–44She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.
• Isa 36:21But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
• 2 Kgs 5:7When the king of Israel had 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 heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”
• 2 Kgs 6:30When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.
• Luke 19:37–40As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,
• Ps 39:2I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
• 1 Kgs 21:27When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
• Amos 8:3The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
• Gen 37:34Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
• Gen 37:29Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
• 2 Sam 1:11Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.
• 2 Sam 3:31David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.
• Gen 44:18Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
• Job 2:13So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
• Jer 36:24The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.
• Acts 9:39Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
• Gen 44:34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me? — lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
• 1 Sam 19:4–5Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;
• Jer 8:14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

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