Ecclesiastes 3:7
"A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;"
Read Ecclesiastes 3 in context →Linked passages (10 shown)
Up to ten source links are retained per verse. Their order follows source votes, not a judgment about meaning. How the links were collected
- Amos 5:13
"Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time."
Read in chapter → - Micah 7:5
"Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom."
Read in chapter → - Esther 4:13
"Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 3:28
"He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 31:8
"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction."
Read in chapter → - Acts 4:20
"For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
Read in chapter → - Esther 7:4
"For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage."
Read in chapter → - Job 32:4
"Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he."
Read in chapter → - Joel 2:13
"And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 24:11
"If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;"
Read in chapter →
Keep your study moving
What would you like to do next?
Read the chapter, compare a link, and keep a short note about what you observe. Your saved and recent passages stay only in this browser.