17 Bible Verses about People Being Silent

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Job 29:22

After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,

Job 32:15

(They have broken down, They have not answered again, They removed from themselves words.

Job 32:16

And I have waited, but they do not speak, For they have stood still, They have not answered any more.)

Job 31:34

Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.

Job 16:6

If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?

Psalm 65:1

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. A Song. To Thee, silence -- praise, O God, is in Zion, And to Thee is a vow completed.

Psalm 62:1

To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. Only -- toward God is my soul silent, From Him is my salvation.

Lamentations 3:26

Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

Lamentations 3:28

He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid it upon him.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.

Psalm 107:42

The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.

Micah 7:16

See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.

Esther 7:4

for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent -- but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.'

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