 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...  Homer's Iliad - Page 507by Homer - 1846Full view - About this book
 | sir William Domville (2nd bart.) - Sabbath - 1855 - 306 pages
...them. We read that when Job's three friends came " to mourn with him and to comfort him" — "they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven...him ; for they saw that his grief was very great." (ii. 11, 13.) Now it is manifest from this account that neither Job nor his friends distinguished any... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - England - 1855 - 444 pages
...an hour of that deep silence of feeling which the friends of Job showed, when " they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake...him; for they saw that his grief was very great." CHAPTEE VIL NEW SCENES AND FACES. "Mist clogs the sunshine, Smoky dwarf houses Have we round on every... | |
 | English literature - 1855 - 654 pages
...feeling which the friends of Job showed, when "they sat with him on the ground seven days aud •even nights, and none spake a word unto him ; for they saw that his grief was very great." CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. THE next afternoon, about twenty miles from Milton-Northern, they entered on the... | |
 | John Wesley - 1856 - 812 pages
...following: — " They were all with one accord in one place," Acts ii, 1. " So they sat down with him seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word...him : for they saw that his grief was very great," Job ii, 13. " Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of God. And I eat aatonied... | |
 | John Macfarlane - 1856 - 84 pages
...31, 13. So i they sat down with him I upon the ground seven ' days and seven nights, I and none snake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great . Job, 2,13. 2 That is. The mourning of the Egyptians. i So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he,... | |
 | Job (the patriarch) - 1857 - 226 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 seven...him : for they saw that his grief was very great. PART I. THE CONTROVERSY FIRST SERIES ^ ; AFTER this opened JOB his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job... | |
 | Bible - 1857 - 224 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 seven...him : for they saw that his grief was very great. PART I. THE CONTROVERSY FIRST SERIES AFTER this opened JOB his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job spake,... | |
 | Sunday school assoc - 1858 - 206 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 seven...him, for they saw that his grief was very great." There is something singularly touching, and peculiarly characteristic of Eastern habits, in the conduct... | |
 | 1858 - 866 pages
...him not, they lifted up their voices and wept, and they sat down with him on the ground, and no man spake a word unto him ; for they saw that his grief was very great. Job ii, 12, 13. As I entered the room he stretched out his hand to greet me, and for some minutes no... | |
 | Literature - 1858 - 674 pages
...seven days and seven nights, in the presence of friends who sat there beside him — none speaking a word unto him, for they saw that his grief was very great. And when he opened his mouth, it was to speak of the bitter in soul, " which long for death but it... | |
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