Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

An evil

Ecclesiastes 9:12
For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.
Isaiah 37:3
and they say unto him, 'Thus said Hezekiah, A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, is this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.
Micah 2:3
Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it is.
Habakkuk 3:16
I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.
Zephaniah 2:2
Before the bringing forth of a statute, As chaff hath the day passed on, While yet not come in upon you doth the heat of the anger of Jehovah, While yet not come in upon you doth a day of the anger of Jehovah,
Ephesians 5:15
See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
Ephesians 6:13
because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.
2 Timothy 3:1
And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

General references

Job 32:16
And I have waited, but they do not speak, For they have stood still, They have not answered any more.)
Proverbs 29:11
A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.
Isaiah 36:21
And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, 'Do not answer him.'