Silent Sympathy
Job 2:13
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him…


Bishop Myriel had the art of sitting down and holding his tongue for hours, by the side of the man who had lost the wife he had loved, or of a mother bereaved of her child.

(Victor Hugo.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

WEB: So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.




Silence, not Speech, the Best Service of Friendship in Sorrow
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