they sat: Ezra 9:3, Nehemiah 1:4, Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 47:1 seven days: Genesis 1:5, Genesis 1:8, Genesis 50:10 none spake: Job 4:2, Psalms 77:4 Reciprocal: Job 9:17 - multiplieth Job 18:20 - were affrighted Psalms 137:1 - the rivers Ecclesiastes 3:7 - time to keep Lamentations 2:10 - elders Ezekiel 3:15 - sat Ezekiel 26:16 - sit read more
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.Upon the ground — In the posture of mourners condoling with him.Seven days — Which was the usual time of mourning for the dead, and therefore proper both for Job's children, and for Job himself, who was in a manner dead, while he lived: not that they continued in this posture so long together, which the necessities of nature could not bear; but they... read more
13. Seven days and seven nights The Orientals not only bemoaned the event of death for a period of seven days, (Genesis 50:10, Sir 22:12 ,) but other calamities those of a national. (Ezekiel 3:15,) and, as in this case, those of a more private, character. The “Bedawi Romance of Antar” thus describes the lamentation of the tribes of Abs and Adnam over their great discomfiture, and the many kings and chiefs that had been slain in battle: “They threw down their tents and pavilions, and thus... read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 2:13
Job 2:13 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. Ver. 13. So they sat down with him on the ground ] Though his scent and loathsomeness were intolerable, yet they bare him company; this was love and sympathy, thus to sit by him on the ground, then, when every one loathed him, and would not lend him a hand to help to scrape him. Seven days and seven nights ] Not all this time, but the... read more