Ecclesiastes 3:7
a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to be silent and a time to speak;
Amos 5:13
Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it [is] a time of evil.
Genesis 37:29
Then Reuben returned to the pit and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes.
Genesis 37:34
And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis 44:18
But Judah drew near to him and said, "Please my lord, let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and {let not your anger burn} against your servant, for {you are like Pharaoh himself}.
Genesis 44:34
For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? {I do not want to see} the misery which will find my father."
1 Samuel 19:4-5
So Jonathan spoke well about David to his father Saul and said to him, "The king should not sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his service for you [has been] very good.
1 Samuel 25:24-44
She fell at his feet and said, "On me, my lord, [be] the guilt! Please let your female servant speak {to you personally}! Hear the words of your female servant!
2 Samuel 1:11
David grabbed [at] his clothes and tore them, [as did] all of the men who [were] with him.
2 Samuel 3:31
David said to Joab and to all the people who [were] with him, "Tear your clothing and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." Now King David [was] following after the bier.
1 Kings 21:27
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his flesh, fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.
2 Kings 5:7
It happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God to cause death or to give life? This man [is] sending a man to me to cure his disease. Indeed! But know and see that he seeks an opportunity against me."
2 Kings 6:30
It happened that when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he had been walking on the wall, and the people saw, and behold, sackcloth was over his flesh underneath.
Esther 4:13-14
Then Mordecai told [them] to reply to Esther: "Do not think that your life will be saved [in] the palace of the king more than all the Jews.
Esther 7:4
I and my people have been sold to be destroyed and killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves I would have kept quiet, because this is not a need sufficient to trouble the king."
Job 2:13
Then they sat with him on the ground [for] seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that {his} suffering was very great.
Job 32:4-22
Thus Elihu had waited for Job {to speak} because {they were older than he}.
Psalm 39:2
I was mute [with] silence. I was silent [even] from [saying] good [things], and my pain was stirred up.
Proverbs 24:11-12
Rescue those who are led away to the death and those who stagger to the slaughter. If you hold back,
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the {needy}.
Isaiah 36:21
But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, "You must not answer him."
Jeremiah 8:14
Why [are] we sitting? Gather, and let us go into the fortified cities, and let us perish there, for Yahweh our God has caused us to perish, and has provided drink for us, water of poison, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
Jeremiah 36:24
And the king and any of his servants who heard all these words were not startled, and they did not tear their garments.
Lamentations 3:28
Let him sit alone and be silent when he has laid it on him.
Joel 2:13
Rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he [is] gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger} and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm.
Amos 8:3
"And the songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," {declares} my Lord Yahweh. "The corpses are numerous; he throws them in every place. Be quiet!"
Micah 7:5
Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.
Luke 19:37-40
Now [as] he was drawing near by this time to the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a loud voice for all the miracles that they had seen,
Acts 4:20
For we are not able to refrain from speaking about [the things] that we have seen and heard."
Acts 9:39
So Peter got up [and] accompanied them. [When he] arrived, they brought [him] up to the upstairs room, and all the widows came to him, weeping and showing [him] tunics and [other] clothing that Dorcas used to make [while she] was with them.