 | Joseph Belcher - 1850 - 502 pages
...lifted up their voices and wept, and rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word unto him ; for they saw that his grief was great." Death not only cuts asunder all those... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - 1850 - 524 pages
...harsh may sound the gentlest tone of sympathy. Wise was the forbearance of the Patriarch's friends : ' None spake a word unto him, for they saw that his grief was very great.' I would not be wanting in the same delicacy and taste of sensibility. A solitary reason induces me... | |
 | John Holland - 1850 - 356 pages
...bereavement. Job's friends sat by his side upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word unto him ; for they saw that his grief was very great. But then surely there is a fit time when the ' mmister of peace ' should break the seal of his commission,... | |
 | 1851 - 668 pages
...themselves, their own ease, interest, or indulgence. Hence H is evident we all need an inward and gracious and "none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. n 4:2. Pi. 77:4. change, that we may leain to love God and oui neighbor. And as men will give all they... | |
 | Church missionary society - 612 pages
...him, when " they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven, and sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights." At the expiration he took up a mourning-cloth, a covering of unbleached cotton of country mako, which... | |
 | Seymour Rossel, Hyman Chanover, Chaim Stern - 1975 - 264 pages
...all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place . . . to comfort ^ him. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that his grief was very great. [Job 2:12-13] The three were so sensitive... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 pages
...and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. 7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 13 CHAPTER 3 A TER THIS opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, The speech... | |
 | John Paul Scott - 1990 - 378 pages
...voices and wept; and they rent everyone his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven." "So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...him: for they saw that his grief was very great." To summarize the ending of Chapter 2, in which Job's wife and his three friends interest themselves... | |
 | Kathleen Raine - 1991 - 196 pages
...are written: And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights and none spoke a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great. (Job n : 1 3) What but silence can respond to the presence of man's total affliction? Job's friends were... | |
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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... 
