Amos 5:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Amos 5:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 2:3
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
Ephesians 5:15-16
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, …
Ecclesiastes 3:7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
2 Timothy 3:1
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Hosea 4:4
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

Topics

Caution Consistency Counsel Expediency Opinion, Public Prudence Speaking

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-15)

This is a message from God to the house of Israel, in which, I. They are told of their faults, that they might see what occasion there was for them to repent and reform, and that, when they were called to return, they might not need to ask, Wherein shall we return? 1. God tells them, in general (Amos 5:12), “ I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins; and you shall be made to know…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. the prudent--the spiritually wise. shall keep silence--not mere silence of tongue, but the prudent shall keep himself quiet from taking part in any public or private affairs which he can avoid: as it is “an evil time,” and one in which all law is set at naught. Ep 5:16 refers to this. Instead of impatiently agitating against irremediable evils, the godly wise will not cast pearls before swine,…