Job’s friends sit with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one speaks a word (Job 2:13). The reason given is that they saw his suffering was very great (Job 2:13).
In Job 2:12–13, Job’s friends arrive and are shocked by what they see. From a distance they cannot even recognize him, and their grief bursts out in loud weeping and visible mourning actions. Instead of speaking, they sit with Job on the ground for a full seven days and nights. This scene comes after Job has lost his children and possessions and has then been struck with painful sores, leaving him sitting in misery (see Job 2:7–8). The friends have set out to sympathize and comfort him, and these verses show their first response before any speeches begin.
Job 2:12–13 shows the friends’ first response to Job’s suffering: they arrive intending sympathy and comfort, but what they see overwhelms them.
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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.