Job 2:12
When they saw Job from a distance they hardly recognized him. They broke out into loud wailing, tore their robes, and threw dust into the air over their heads.
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Genesis 27:34When Esau heard his father's words, he cried out in great anger and bitterness, and pleaded with his father, “Please bless me too, my father!”
Judges 2:4After the angel of the Lord had explained this to all the Israelites, the people wept out loud.
1 Samuel 11:4When the messengers arrived in the town called Gibeah of Saul and gave the message as the people listened, they all wept out loud.
2 Samuel 13:36As he finished speaking, the king's sons came in, crying and wailing. Then the king and all his officials also cried loudly.
Nehemiah 9:1On the twenty-fourth day of this same month, the Israelites met together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.
Job 1:20Then Job stood up and tore his robe. Then cut off his hair and fell to the ground in worship.
Matthew Henry on Job 2:12-13
Job Visited by His Friends. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. 12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 13 So… Read the whole commentary →