Job 2:13
Good News Translation
Then they sat there on the ground with him for seven days and nights without saying a word, because they saw how much he was suffering.

New Revised Standard Version
They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

Contemporary English Version
For seven days and nights, they sat silently on the ground beside him, because they realized what terrible pain he was in.

New American Bible
Then they sat down upon the ground with him seven days and seven nights, but none of them spoke a word to him; for they saw how great was his suffering.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they sat with him on the ground seven day and seven nights and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they sat with him on the ground seven day and seven nights and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.

they sat.

Ezra 9:3 And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and plucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning.

Nehemiah 1:4 And when I had heard these words, I sat down, and wept, and mourned for many days: and I fasted, and prayed before the face of the God of heaven.

Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

Isaiah 47:1 Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt no more be called delicate and tender.

seven days.

Genesis 1:5,8 And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day. . . .

Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

none spake.

Job 4:2 If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?

Psalm 77:4 My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.

Context
Job's Three Friends
12And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 13And they sat with him on the ground seven day and seven nights and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Cross References
Genesis 50:10
And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

Job 3:1
After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,

Lamentations 2:10
Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Ezekiel 3:15
And I came to them of the captivity, to the heap of new corn, to them that dwelt by the river Chobar, and I sat where they sat: and I remained there seven days mourning in the midst of them.

Job 2:12
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