Sargent Shultz

Amos 5:12
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].
Amos 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.


Haiku, Sargent Shultz,

Sargent Shultz was right
I hear, see and know nothing
The prudent grow dumb?


The meaning for the word silence in Hebrew:
damam
1) to be silent, be still, wait, be dumb, grow dumb
a) (Qal)
1) to be silent
2) to be still, die
3) to be struck dumb
b) (Niphal) to be silenced, be made silent, destroyed
c) (Poal) to make quiet
d) (Hiphil) to make silent (cause to die)