Job 2:13

Friendship Grief Stillness and meditation Comfort

¹¹ Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

¹² When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
KJV: 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.
WEB: So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
ASV: 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.
DARBY: 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.
BLB: Then they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and there was no speaking to him a word, for they saw that [his] pain was very great.

ÅB: Og de satt hos ham på jorden i syv dager og syv netter, og ingen talte et ord til ham; for de så at hans pine var såre stor.
OTB: Så satt de på bakken med ham i syv dager og syv netter. Ingen talte et ord til ham, for de så hvor stor hans lidelse var.
B1930: Og de satt hos ham på jorden i syv dager og syv netter, og ingen talte et ord til ham; for de så at hans pine var såre stor.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Genesis 50:10
When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
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Nehemiah 1:4
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
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Ezekiel 3:15
I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.
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Isaiah 3:26
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
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Job 4:2
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
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Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
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Genesis 1:5
God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
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Psalms 77:4
You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
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