 | 1885 - 302 pages
...with groanings that cannot be uttered." When Job's three friends went to visit and mourn with him " they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him ;" and when David was in heavy sorrow, he said, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 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...him : for they saw that his grief was very great. LECTURE 764. Whatsoever we receive at the hand of God, all is good. How watchful ought it to make us,... | |
 | Amos Augustus Phelps - 1842 - 326 pages
...father seven days." When Job's friends came to sympathize with him in his affliction, (Job ii. 13,) " they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights." When God sent the plague of blood on Egypt, (Ex. vii. 25,) "seven days were fulfilled," and then it... | |
 | 1843 - 1108 pages
...and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 13 go, ye shall come unto а people secure, and to a large land : nigh's, and none spake a word unto him ; for they saw that Ait grief was very great. CHAP. III. Job... | |
 | Joseph Roberts - 1844 - 662 pages
...in deep sorrow, or when they participate in that of others. See the observations on Joshua vii. 6. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...him : for they saw that his grief was very great. — Verse 13. Se.e Gen. 1. 10 ; 1 Sam. xxxi. 13 ; 1 Chron. x. 12. Those who go to sympathize with the... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1844 - 560 pages
...and wept ; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days...him, for they saw that his grief was very great." It was precisely in the spirit of these men, that our Lord acted towards this bereaved mother. " He... | |
 | John Bruce - 1844 - 306 pages
...voices 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...him : for they saw that his grief was very great." Excessive sorrow prefers loneliness to society. There was an hour so bitter in the agony of our Lord,... | |
 | John Lindsay Adamson - 1844 - 256 pages
...suggestions. Even Job's friends, miserable comforters though they were, were yet better than these. " They sat down with him upon the ground seven days...him ; for they saw that his grief was very great." Sundry other considerations the family of Jacob might address to him ; but they were all of them ineffectual... | |
 | 1867 - 848 pages
...example of Job's friends (however uncharitable they were afterwards), when they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake...unto him ; for they saw that his grief was very great (Job. ii. 13). But the calmer hour will come. As in a heated and laborious day to the most busy laborer... | |
 | Pope Gregory I - 1844 - 646 pages
...wept ; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. Ver. 18. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. 68. For by the weeping pity is betokened, discretion by xxxvi. the cutting of the garments, the affecting1... | |
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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... 
