13Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.


In Context

10 He replied, "You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?" In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

11 When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

12 When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads.

13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.

Job 2:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13So 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:13And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:13So 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13And 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 anguish was very great.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:13So 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13So 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13So 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.