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20 Bible Verses About Being Silent

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Summary

  • Proverbs praises holding the tongue (10:19, 11:12, 17:28) but also calls the tongue of the righteous “choice silver” (10:20) and commands, “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves” (31:8).
  • Job’s friends sat with him seven days and seven nights without a word; after they had made their speeches, Job wished they “would be altogether silent” (Job 13:5).
  • Habakkuk 2:20 calls the whole earth to be silent before the LORD directly after mocking idols “that cannot speak.”
  • Jesus stayed silent before false witnesses, Pilate and Herod, and in Acts 8 Philip starts from Isaiah 53:7 to tell “the good news about Jesus.”
  • Ecclesiastes 3:7 names “a time to be silent and a time to speak,” and Mordecai warns Esther that her silence would cost her and her father’s family their lives.

The Bible praises silence in some settings and condemns it in others. Proverbs commends holding the tongue (Proverbs 10:19, 17:28), and Job’s friends sit with him for seven days without a word (Job 2:13). The prophets call the earth to be silent before God (Habakkuk 2:20, Zechariah 2:13), and Jesus stays silent before his accusers, as Isaiah 53:7 describes the servant doing. Ecclesiastes 3:7 gives both a season, “a time to be silent and a time to speak,” and in…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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