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Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » David
But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest. I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.
Friends » False friends » David's friends were false to david
For it is not an enemy who taunts me-- then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me-- then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
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You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
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You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.
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Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know. They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft. But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest. read more.
I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning. But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.
I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning. But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.
My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant. His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Good for evil » Returning » David, to his enemies
They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft. But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest. I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.
Ingratitude » Of man to man » David's companions to david
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
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Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.
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Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know. They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft. But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest. read more.
I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning. But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.
I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning. But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.
In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Social duties » Sympathy the marks of true » Human, examples of
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
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Jesus wept.
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and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.
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Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
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And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.
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I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.
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Sympathy » The marks of true » Examples of
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
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Jesus wept.
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and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.
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Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
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And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.
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I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.
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