Job 2:13
So they sat down on the ground with Job for seven days and seven nights and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned there with a great lamentation (expressions of mourning for the deceased) and [extreme demonstrations of] sorrow [according to Egyptian custom]; and Joseph observed a seven-day mourning for his father.
Ezekiel 3:15
Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the River Chebar at Tel Abib. I sat there for seven days [in the place] where they were living, overwhelmed with astonishment [by my vision and the work before me].
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was
Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse [of sky] heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Ezra 9:3
When I heard this, I tore my clothing and my robe [in grief], I pulled out some of the hair from my head and my beard, and sat down appalled [at the shame of it].
Nehemiah 1:4
Now it came about when I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying [constantly] before the God of heaven.
Job 4:2
“If we dare to converse with you, will you be impatient [or offended]?
But who can restrain himself from speaking?
Psalm 77:4
You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Isaiah 3:26
And Jerusalem’s gates will lament (cry out in grief) and mourn [as those who wail for the dead];
And she, being ruined and desolate, will sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 47:1
O virgin daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground [in abject humiliation]; there is no throne for you,
O daughter of the
For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
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Summary
They sat
Seven days
None spake
Bible References
They sat
And Jerusalem’s gates will lament (cry out in grief) and mourn [as those who wail for the dead];
And she, being ruined and desolate, will sit upon the ground.
O virgin daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground [in abject humiliation]; there is no throne for you,
O daughter of the
For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
Seven days
None spake
“If we dare to converse with you, will you be impatient [or offended]?
But who can restrain himself from speaking?
You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.