Ecclesiastes 3:7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
KJV
Tempus scindendi, et tempus consuendi ; tempus tacendi, et tempus loquendi.
Vulgate
καιρὸς τοῦ ῥῆξαι καὶ καιρὸς τοῦ ῥάψαι, καιρὸς τοῦ σιγᾷν καὶ καιρὸς τοῦ λαλεῖν,
LXX
a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
ASV
עֵ֤ת לִ/קְר֨וֹעַ֙ וְ/עֵ֣ת לִ/תְפּ֔וֹר עֵ֥ת לַ/חֲשׁ֖וֹת וְ/עֵ֥ת לְ/דַבֵּֽר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
יְדַבֵּ֥ר
ydbr
verb · 1134×
יִּקְרַ֣ע
yqr'
verb · 63×
מַחְשִׁ֔ים
mchshym
verb · 16×
עֵ֣ת
't
verb · 293×
תְפּ֔וֹר
tpvr
verb · 4×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Abba Arsenius said to Abba Alexander, "When you have cut your palm branches, come and eat with me, but if visitors come, eat with them." Abba Alexander worked slowly and carefully. When the time came, Abba Arsenius was still at work. Wishing to keep his word, he let him eat alone. Abba Alexander was grieved. Then the old man said, "I did not say that because of you but for myse…
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 21:27 — And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
- 1Sam 25:24 — And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
- 2Kgs 5:7 — And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his lepro
- 2Kgs 6:30 — And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
- 2Sam 1:11 — Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
- 2Sam 3:31 — And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
- Acts 4:20 — For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
- Amos 5:13 — Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
- Amos 5:13 — Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
- Amos 8:3 — And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
- Esth 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.
- Esth 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 kin
- Gen 37:29 — And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
- Gen 37:34 — And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Gen 44:18 — Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
- Isa 36:21 — But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
- Job 32:4 — Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
- 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.
- John 8:6 — This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
- Lam 3:28 — He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
- Luke 19:37 — And when he was come nigh, even now 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 that they had
- Mic 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.
- Prov 24:11 — If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
- Prov 31:8 — Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
- Ps 39:2 — I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.