Job 2:13

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

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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 lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:5God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.

Genesis 50:10They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

Nehemiah 1:4It happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

Psalms 77:4You hold my eyelids open.I am so troubled that I can't speak.

Isaiah 47:1"Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

Ezekiel 3:15Then I came to them of the exiles at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

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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