Ecclesiastes 3:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

A time to rend; when men shall rend their garments, as they did in great and sudden griefs, as Genesis 37:29 Joel 2:13. A time to keep silence; wherein men will or shall be silent, either through grief, as Job 2:12,13, or by sickness or weakness, or because God denies a man ability to utter his mind.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;