Prudent... silence. — The dumb silence of the prudent is the awful curse which comes upon a people when they are given up to selfishness and rapacity. Thus the doom: — “Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.”
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Amos 5:13
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.