Job 2:13

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Summary

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.

They sat

Seven days

Genesis 1:5

Genesis 50:10

None spake

Job 4:2

Psalm 77:4

Bible References

They sat

When I heard about this matter, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled some of the hair from my head and my beard, and sat down appalled.

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

And her

gates will lament and mourn,

And deserted she will sit on the ground.

“Come down and sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate.

Seven days

God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days mourning for his father.

None spake

“If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient?
But who can refrain from speaking?

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.