American King James Version
"Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. "
— Amos 5:13, American King James Version
“Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.”
“Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time. ”
“Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.”
“For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.”
“Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.”
“So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an evil time.”
“Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.”
They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.