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

⁴⁴ They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls.^(A) They will not leave one stone on another,^(B) because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming^(C) to you.”

¹⁶ Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered^(A) garments. Clothed^(B) with terror, they will sit on the ground,^(C) trembling^(D) every moment, appalled^(E) at you.

⁸ Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.^(A)

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