Thematic Bible
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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job
“Did I not weep for one whose life was hard and filled with trouble?
Was not my heart grieved for the needy?
Social duties » Sympathy the marks of true » Human, examples of
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people crossed over. The king also crossed the Brook Kidron, and all the people went on toward the way of the wilderness [that lies between Jerusalem and the Jordan River].
Jesus wept.
and many of the Jews had come to see Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning [the loss of] their brother.
“Did I not weep for one whose life was hard and filled with trouble?
Was not my heart grieved for the needy?
Following Him was a large crowd of the people, including women who were mourning and wailing for Him.
I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother;
I bowed down in mourning, as one who sorrows for his mother.
Sympathy » The marks of true » Examples of
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people crossed over. The king also crossed the Brook Kidron, and all the people went on toward the way of the wilderness [that lies between Jerusalem and the Jordan River].
Jesus wept.
and many of the Jews had come to see Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning [the loss of] their brother.
“Did I not weep for one whose life was hard and filled with trouble?
Was not my heart grieved for the needy?
Following Him was a large crowd of the people, including women who were mourning and wailing for Him.
I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother;
I bowed down in mourning, as one who sorrows for his mother.