Ecclesiastes 3:7
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
- KJV
- A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
- WEB
- a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
- ASV
- a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
- DARBY
- A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
- BLB
- a time to tear and a time to sew, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
- ÅB
- å sønderrive har sin tid og å sy sammen har sin tid; å tie har sin tid og å tale har sin tid;
- OTB
- En tid for å rive i stykker og en tid for å sy sammen, en tid for å tie og en tid for å tale,
- B1930
- å sønderrive har sin tid og å sy sammen har sin tid; å tie har sin tid og å tale har sin tid;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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 contextAmos 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Read in contextEsther 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.
Read in contextLamentations 3:28
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Read in contextActs 4:20
For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Read in contextProverbs 31:8–9
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Read in contextProverbs 24:11–12
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Read in contextEsther 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.
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