"A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;" — Ecclesiastes 3:7

Ecclesiastes 3:7 · KJV

“A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;”

— Ecclesiastes 3:7

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; {get: or, seek}

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes 3 — Context

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; {to refrain from: Heb. to be far from}

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; {get: or, seek}

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

Cross References

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it {is} an evil time.

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.

Lamentations 3:28

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne {it} upon him.

Esther 4:13-14

Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

Proverbs 31:8-9

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. {such...: Heb. the sons of destruction}

Acts 4:20

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Proverbs 24:11-12

If thou forbear to deliver {them that are} drawn unto death, and {those that are} ready to be slain;

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.