 | Northrop Frye, Jay Macpherson - 2004 - 492 pages
...nothing to gain from coming to see Job in his utter destitution. In chapter 2, the last verse ends, "So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights" — that's the ritual period of mourning — "and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his... | |
 | Vanessa Alexander Johnson - 2005 - 170 pages
...voice, and wept, and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...for they saw that his grief was very great." (Job 2:1 1-13) Chapter Three My Worst Fears Realized Three weeks following my mother's death my infant son,... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2005 - 702 pages
...and wept; and they rent everyone his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven, 2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...him: for they saw that (his) grief was very great. Chapter 3 Job curses the day of his birth and asks why he did not die at birth. He realizes that the... | |
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April D. Adeshile - 2005 - 393 pages
...mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. And the bible tells us in verse 13 that they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. It is always very amazing when our friends, family, and even our co workers see us in our times of... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2005 - 529 pages
...on, as "miserable comforters" (16:2), and yet it is said of them, in a verse quoted on plate 8, that "they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great" (2:13). Seven days of silent sympathy from friends who are at least not fair-weather friends, and have... | |
 | Elmer L. Towns - 2006 - 385 pages
...and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 1131 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. m After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 121 And Job spake, and said, [3] Let the day... | |
 | Marshall Spurling - 2006 - 261 pages
...voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. In this story there are (TEN') that spoke to (JOE.) (NINE") were people. (QBE) was God. God hid the... | |
 | Kelvin D. Bodley - 2006 - 166 pages
...during his long arduous battle of discrimination against the county Chapter Twelve BREA KIN GP OIN T So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...nights and none spake a word unto him: for they saw his grief was very great. After this opened Job Ms mouth, and cursed his day. And Job spake f and said,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 2010 - 554 pages
...an hour of that deep silence of feeling which the friends of Job showed, when 'they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake...him; for they saw that his grief was very great.' CHAPTER VII NEW SCENES AND FACES *>K>K 'Mist clogs the sunshine, Smoky dwarf houses Have we round on... | |
 | Kenneth Haynes - 2007 - 252 pages
...primarily focused on the social and physical environments of ancient civilizations. ' Job 2:13-3:1: "So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. After this opened Job his mouth." first outburst of creation, and the first impression of its chronicler;... | |
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And 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 upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven... 
