Thematic Bible
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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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.
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
Jesus wept.
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Sympathy » The marks of true » Examples of
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.
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
Jesus wept.
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.