Job 42:11

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Summary

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

All his brethren

Job 19:13

Proverbs 16:7

They bemoaned

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All his brethren

My Brethren - from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;

When, acceptable to Yahweh, are the ways of a man, even his enemies, doth he cause to make peace with him.

They bemoaned

Now when the three friends of Job heard of all this misfortune which had befallen him, - they came, every man from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, - for they had by appointment met together to come to shew sympathy with him, and to comfort him.

Him that was stumbling, have thy words raised up, and, sinking knees, hast thou strengthened.

I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip-solace should restrain you.

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to console him but he refused to be consoled, and said - Surely I will go down unto my son mourning to hades! And his father wept for him.

Strengthen ye the weak hands, - The trembling knees, make ye firm:

and, many from among the Jews, had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.

Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep:

And, whether one member, suffereth, all the members, suffer with it, or, a member is glorified, all the members, rejoice together.

Wherefore, the slackened hands and paralysed knees, restore ye,

Bear in mind them who are in bonds, as having become jointly bound, - them who are suffering ill-treatment, as being yourselves also in the body.