Job 2:13

New English Translation

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

Cross References

Genesis 1:5

God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.

Genesis 1:8

God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

Ezra 9:3

When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and my robe and ripped out some of the hair from my head and beard. Then I sat down, quite devastated.

Nehemiah 1:4

When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Job 3:1

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.

Job 4:2

“If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?

Psalm 77:4

You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

Isaiah 47:1

“Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. Jerusalem’s young women stare down at the ground. כ (Kaf)

Ezekiel 3:15

I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, who lived by the Kebar River. I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days.