Job 2:13

Then they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights. No one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

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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 lifted up their eyes at a distance, they did not recognize him. They raised their voices and wept; each tore his robe and threw dust into the air and upon his own head.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:5God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” This was evening and morning, the first day.

Genesis 50:10When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned with very great and grievous sorrow. There Joseph made a seven-day mourning for his father.

Nehemiah 1:4As soon as I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and for days I continued grieving and fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Psalms 77:4You held my eyes open; 1 I was too troubled to speak. 1

Isaiah 47:1Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; 1 sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. 1 You will no longer be called dainty and delicate. 1

Ezekiel 3:15So I went to the captives at Tel Aviv who lived along the Kebar Canal, and I stayed there among them for seven days, overwhelmed in amazement.

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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