关于沉默的20节圣经经文

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…