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Amos 5:13

Sebab itu orang yang berakal budi akan berdiam diri pada waktu itu, karena waktu itu adalah waktu yang jahat.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prudence;   Speaking;   Thompson Chain Reference - Keep Silence;   Prudence;   Prudence-Rashness;   Silence;   Silence-Speech;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prudence;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - City;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   Day of the Lord;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Day of Judgment;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Calf, Golden;   Silence;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab itu orang yang berakal budi akan berdiam diri pada waktu itu, karena waktu itu adalah waktu yang jahat.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sebab itu pada masa ini orang yang berakal itu berdiam dirinya, karena masa ini jahat adanya.

Contextual Overview

4 For thus sayth the Lord vnto the house of Israel, Seke ye me, and ye shall liue. 5 But seke not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and go not to Beerseba: for Gilgal shall go into captiuitie, and Bethel shall come to naught. 6 Seke the Lord, and ye shall liue: lest he breake out like fire in the house of Ioseph, and deuoure it, and there be noone to quenche it in Bethel. 7 They turne iudgement to wormewood, and forsake righteousnesse in the earth. 8 He maketh the seuen starres and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth, the Lorde is his name. 9 He strengthneth the destroyer against the mightie, & the destroyer shall come against the fortresse. 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhorre him that speaketh vprightly. 11 Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and ye take from hym burdens of wheate: ye haue buylt houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: ye haue planted pleasaunt vineyardes, but ye shall not drinke wine of them. 12 For I knowe your manyfolde transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewardes, and they oppresse the poore in the gate. 13 Therfore the wise shall kepe scilence in that time: for it is an euyll time.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the prudent: Amos 6:10, Ecclesiastes 3:7, Isaiah 36:21, Hosea 4:4, Micah 7:5-7, Matthew 27:12-14

an evil: Ecclesiastes 9:12, Isaiah 37:3, Micah 2:3, Habakkuk 3:16, Zephaniah 2:2, Zephaniah 2:3, Ephesians 5:15, Ephesians 5:16, Ephesians 6:13, 2 Timothy 3:1

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:36 - held their peace Nehemiah 2:12 - neither Job 13:5 - and it Job 21:5 - lay your Job 32:16 - General Psalms 37:19 - in the evil Psalms 38:14 - that heareth Psalms 39:1 - while Psalms 49:5 - days Proverbs 14:15 - the prudent Proverbs 29:11 - General Lamentations 2:10 - and keep Micah 1:10 - Declare Zechariah 1:4 - Turn John 7:10 - not John 8:6 - as though

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time,.... Not the prophets of the Lord, whose business it was at all times to reprove, and not hold their peace, let the consequence be what it would; though the Targum calls them teachers; but private persons, whose wisdom it would be to say nothing; since reproof would do no good to these persons, and they would bring a great deal of hatred ill will, and trouble upon themselves as well as would hear the name of God blasphemed, which would be very afflictive to them: or the sense is, they would not speak to God on the behalf of these wicked men, knowing the decree was gone forth; nor say one murmuring word at it, believing it was in righteousness; and being struck also with the awfulness of God's righteous judgments:

for it [is] an evil time; in which sin abounded, and miseries and calamities on account of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time - The “time” may be either the time of the obduracy of the wicked, or that of the common punishment. For a time may be called “evil,” whether evil is done, or is suffered in it, as Jacob says, “Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been” Genesis 47:9. Of the first, he would perhaps say, that the oppressed poor would, if wise, be silent, not complaining or accusing, for, injustice having the mastery, complaint would only bring on them fresh sufferings. And again also he may mean that, on account of the incorrigibleness of the people, the wise and the prophets would be silent, because the more the people were rebuked, the more impatient and worse they became. So our Lord was silent before His judges, as had been foretold of Him, for since they would not hear, His speaking would only increase their condemnation. “If I tell you, ye will not believe; and if I also ask you, ye will not answer Me, nor let Me go” Luke 22:67-68. So God said by Solomon: “He that reproveth a scorner getteth himself shame, and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot” Proverbs 9:7. And our Lord bids, “Give not that which is holy unto dogs, and cast not your pearls before swine” Matthew 7:6. They hated and rejected those who rebuked them. Matthew 7:10. Since then rebuke profited not, the prophets should hold their peace. It is a fearful judgment, when God withholds His warnings. In times of punishment also the prudent keep silence. Intense affliction is “dumb and openeth not its month,” owning the hand of God. It may be too, that Amos, like Hosea Hosea 4:4, Hosea 4:17, expresses the uselessness of all reproof, in regard to the most of those whom be called to repentance, even while he continued earnestly to rebuke them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 13. The prudent shall keep silence — A wise man will consider that it is useless to complain. He can have no justice without bribes; and he has no money to give: consequently, in such an evil time, it is best to keep silence.


 
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