Job 2:13

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

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  • Gen 50:10 : 10 When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they held a great and solemn lamentation. Joseph observed seven days of mourning for his father.
  • Neh 1:4 : 4 When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned, fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven.
  • Ezek 3:15 : 15 I came to the exiles at Tel Aviv who were living by the Kebar River, and I sat among them for seven days, stunned and overwhelmed by their presence.
  • Job 4:2 : 2 If someone attempts to speak with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
  • Ps 77:4 : 4 I remember God and moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. Selah.
  • Isa 3:26 : 26 The city gates will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
  • Isa 47:1 : 1 Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
  • Ezra 9:3 : 3 When I heard this, I tore my garment and my robe, pulled out some of the hair from my head and beard, and sat down appalled.
  • Gen 1:5 : 5 God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.' And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
  • Gen 1:8 : 8 God called the vault 'sky.' And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

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    11Now when Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had come upon him, each of them came from his own place—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come and show him sympathy and comfort.

    12When they saw him from a distance, they could not recognize him. They raised their voices and wept. Each of them tore his robe and threw dust on their heads skyward as a sign of grief.

  • Gen 37:34-35
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    34Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son for many days.

    35All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "I will go down to Sheol mourning my son." And his father wept for him.

  • Gen 50:10
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    10When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they held a great and solemn lamentation. Joseph observed seven days of mourning for his father.

  • Lam 3:28
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    28Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.

  • 2 Sam 12:17-18
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    17The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.

    18On the seventh day, the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, 'While the child was still alive, we spoke to him but he would not listen to us. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.'

  • Jer 16:7
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    7No one will break bread for the bereaved to comfort them for the dead. Nor will anyone offer them a cup of consolation for their father or mother.

  • Ps 35:14
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    14I behaved as if they were my friend or brother; I mourned as one mourning for a mother, bowed down in sorrow.

  • Luke 7:13
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    13When the Lord saw her, He was moved with compassion for her and said, 'Do not weep.'

  • 2 Sam 12:21-22
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    21His attendants asked him, 'Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!'

    22David answered, 'While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, 'Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.''

  • Job 14:22
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    22He feels pain only in his own flesh and mourns only for himself.

  • 2 Sam 1:12
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    12They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, for Jonathan his son, for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

  • 1 Chr 7:22
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    22Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

  • Dan 10:2
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    2During those days, I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.

  • Job 1:20
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    20At this, Job got up, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell to the ground in worship.

  • Ezek 24:17
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    17Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your mustache, and do not eat the bread of mourning.

  • 1 Kgs 13:30
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    30He laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him, saying, 'Alas, my brother!'

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30They will mourn over you with loud cries, bitterly wailing, throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

  • Job 42:11
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    11All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to him and ate with him in his house. They showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the misfortune that the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

  • 2 Kgs 2:17
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    17But they persisted until he was too ashamed to refuse. So he said, 'Send them.' And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find him.

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    33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

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  • Job 3:7
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    7Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice enter it.

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    12"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

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    2I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are all of you.

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    7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, 'My anger burns against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about Me as My servant Job has.'

    8So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken the truth about Me as My servant Job has.

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    20You know my reproach, my shame, and my disgrace; all my adversaries are before you.

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    10He will never come back to his house; his place will know him no more.

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    17She cried before him the entire seven days of the feast, and on the seventh day, he told her because she pressed him so much. Then she revealed the answer to the riddle to her people.

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    15They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have left them.

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    15His survivors will be buried in death, and his widows will not weep for them.

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    20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.