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

Bible References

All his brethren

My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.

They bemoaned

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.

I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, 'For -- I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.

Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.

and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with it do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with it do all the members;

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;