Job 2:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 50:10 : 10 And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.
  • Neh 1:4 : 4 Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,
  • Ezek 3:15 : 15 Then I came to those who had been taken away as prisoners, who were at Telabib by the river Chebar, and I was seated among them full of wonder for seven days.
  • Job 4:2 : 2 If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?
  • Ps 77:4 : 4 You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.
  • Isa 3:26 : 26 And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
  • Isa 47:1 : 1 Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.
  • Ezra 9:3 : 3 And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.
  • Gen 1:5 : 5 Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
  • Gen 1:8 : 8 And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

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    11And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

    12And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

  • Gen 37:34-35
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    34Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.

    35And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

  • Gen 50:10
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    10And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

  • Lam 3:28
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    28Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.

  • 2 Sam 12:17-18
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    17And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

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  • Jer 16:7
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    7No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

  • Ps 35:14
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    14My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

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    13And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.

  • 2 Sam 12:21-22
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    21Then his servants said to him, Why have you been acting in this way? you were weeping and going without food while the child was still living; but when the child was dead, you got up and had a meal.

    22And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?

  • Job 14:22
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    22Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

  • 2 Sam 1:12
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    12And till evening they gave themselves to sorrow and weeping, and took no food, weeping for Saul and for Jonathan, his son, and for the people of the Lord and for the men of Israel; because they had come to their end by the sword.

  • 1 Chr 7:22
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    22And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.

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    2In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks.

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    20Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

  • Ezek 24:17
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    17Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief.

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    30And he put the body in the resting-place made ready for himself, weeping and sorrowing over it, saying, O my brother!

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

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    11And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

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    17But when they kept on requesting him, he was shamed and said, Send, then. So they sent fifty men; but after searching for three days, they came back without having seen him.

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    7And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

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    20My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

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