Job 2:13

Then they sat on the ground with Job for seven days. None of them said anything to Job, because they saw that he was suffering greatly, and they did not think that anything that they said would lessen his pain.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

In Context

12When they saw Job from a distance, they almost did not recognize him. They wailed loudly, they tore their robes, and they threw dust over their heads to show how sorry they were because of what had happened to Job.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:5He gave to the light the name ‘day’, and he gave to the darkness the name ‘night’. After that, there was an evening which was followed by a morning. He called that whole period of time ‘the first day’.

Genesis 50:10They went to the east side of the Jordan River and arrived at Atad. There was a place there where people ◄threshed/beat the grain to separate the wheat from the chaff.► There they mourned loudly for Jacob for a long time. Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for his father for seven days.

Nehemiah 1:4When I heard that, I sat down and cried. For several days I mourned, and I ◄fasted/abstained from eating food►, and I prayed to our God, who is/rules in heaven.

Psalms 77:4All during the night he prevents me from sleeping; I am very worried, with the result that I do not know what to say.

Isaiah 47:1Yahweh also says, “You people of Babylon, you should go and sit in the dust/dirt to show that you are mourning, because your time to rule [MTY] other countries is almost ended. People will never again say that Babylonia is beautiful like a very attractive/beautiful young woman.

Ezekiel 3:15I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Abib town near the Kebar River/Canal south of Babylon. Then, where they were living, I sat for seven days. I was shocked about everything that I had seen.

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 →

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