“HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. So 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. Whether they sat with the afflicted Job for seven days and seven nights together, or possibly for seven days and as many nights kept by him in as…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book III
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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.
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11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12And 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.