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Amos 5:13

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Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

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Verse 13. Time. It is to no purpose speaking to the deaf, (Sirach 32:9) or throwing pearls before swine. Matthew 7:6. Amos was silent for a while, till God opened his mouth again. Calmet. 3:8 and 7:12.

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