So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great. Treasury of Scripture they sat. Ezra 9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard... Nehemiah 1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted... Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit on the ground. Isaiah 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans... seven days. Genesis 1:5,8 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day... Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation... none spake. Job 4:2 If we assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? Psalm 77:4 You hold my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Context Job's Three Friends
11Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come on him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. 12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. 13So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Darby Bible Translation
And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that his anguish was very great.
King James Bible
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.
Young's Literal Translation
And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.
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