31 Bible Verses about Individuals Being Silent

The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.

Nevertheless Saul did not say anything that day: for he thought, "Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean."

Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD spoke of, saying, 'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" Aaron held his peace.

When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.

But certain worthless fellows said, "How shall this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace. Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, was severely oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He put out the right eye of all of them, and he would not allow anyone to rescue Israel. Not one was left of the children of Israel beyond the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, did not put out, except for seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and went to Jabesh Gilead.

For, as the LORD lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

Absalom her brother said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart." So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.

Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you keep limping between two positions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." But the people did not answer him a word.

But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

And he said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.

But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go.

They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.

But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

And all the people kept quiet, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

After my words they did not speak again. My speech fell on them.

"Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

But I, as a deaf man, do not hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

I was mute. I did not open my mouth, because you did it.

I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"

Look, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Messiah?