17 Bible Verses about People Being Silent

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Job 29:22

After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.

Job 32:15

"They are dismayed; they answer no more; they have not a word to say.

Job 32:16

And shall I wait, because they do not speak, because they stand there, and answer no more?

Job 31:34

because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors--

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

Job 16:6

"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

Psalm 65:1

Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed.

Psalm 62:1

For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.

Lamentations 3:26

It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him;

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.

Psalm 107:42

The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth.

Micah 7:16

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king."

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