Job 2:13
They sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. None of them said anything to him because they saw how badly he was suffering.
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Genesis 1:5God called the light “day,” and he called the darkness “night.” So there was evening, and then the morning, making day one.
Genesis 50:10When they got to the threshing floor of Atad, on the other side of the Jordan, they wept loudly in sorrow. Joseph held a seven-day ceremony of mourning for his father there.
Nehemiah 1:4When I heard the news, I sat down, weeping and mourning for days, fasting and praying to the God of heaven.
Psalms 77:4You stop me going to sleep; I'm so upset I can't even talk.
Isaiah 47:1Go down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Babylonia! No longer will people call you gentle and delicate.
Ezekiel 3:15I arrived at the place where the exiles lived, Tel-abib by the River Kebar. I just sat with them, staying with them there for seven days. I was completely overcome with emotion.
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 →