 | Joseph Benson - Bible - 1846 - 1170 pages
...and " sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 13 So they sat down with him upon the ground 1 seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word...him : for they saw that his grief was very great. ' Chapter xlii. 11 ; Rom. xii. 15.Ezek. xxvii. 30.— •• Neh. ix. 1 , Lara. ii. 10 ; ' Gen. 1.... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Christianity - 1848 - 638 pages
...preacher's view. He has his flock before him, and proceeds to announce his text, — Job ii. 13. " So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven...him : for they saw that his grief was very great." The doctrine deduced from the text is, " that it is the part of true friends and brethren to sympathize... | |
 | John Williamson Nevin - Bible - 1849 - 482 pages
...wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust on their heads, toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground, seven days and...unto him ; for they saw that his grief was very great !" Who can read, without emotion, the strong and affecting language, in which the sufferer himself... | |
 | Bible - 1849 - 360 pages
...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...him ; for they saw that his grief was very great. Job answered and said, Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances... | |
 | John Williamson Nevin - Bible - 1849 - 488 pages
...wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust on their heads, toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground, seven days and...a word unto him ; for they saw that his grief was verj great !" Who can read, without emotion, the strong and affecting language, in which the sufferer... | |
 | 1849 - 356 pages
...anguish to her grief? May I not hetter imitate the example of the three friends of the man of Uz, who "sat down with him upon the ground seven days and...spake a word unto him, for they saw that his grief was veiy great?" But, weeping mourner, I have a message even for thee. Let it fall gently upon thine ear,... | |
 | 1849 - 556 pages
...vexatiousness, and drinks the bitter cup to the dregs. A long period of mute unbroken meditation, during which ' none spake a word unto him, for they saw that his grief was very great,' first puts this whole visible system of tilings in strong and vivid light before him. Thought gathering... | |
 | M. A. B. - Methodist converts - 1850 - 156 pages
...period of Emma's life, I am reminded of Job s trials and the conduct of his friends: — " So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven...him, for they saw that his grief was very great." So unexpected and so sudden had been the blow, that Mr. Wingate had no time to make any arrangements... | |
 | 1850 - 830 pages
...sprinkled dust" upon their heads toward heaven. 13 So they sat down' with him upon the ground seven1* ned into the tent unto Sarah, and said, * Hake . CHAPTER III. .AJFTER this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job V spake, and said,... | |
 | Pope Gregory I - Bible - 1844 - 660 pages
...high fortitude, under the scourge of his body, had fallen in mind too. It proceeds ; Ver. 13. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a tcord unto him ; for they saw that his grief was very great. xiii. 22. Whether they sat with the afflicted... | |
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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... 
