²⁰ Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshiped.^(A)

⁶ Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time.

¹⁶ David therefore pleaded with God for the child; David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.^{(A) 17} The elders of his house stood beside him urging him to rise from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them. ¹⁸ On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “While the child was still alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us; how then can we tell him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.” ¹⁹ But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, he perceived that the child was dead, and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”

²⁰ Then David rose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes. He went into the house of the Lord and worshiped; he then went to his own house, and when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.^(B)

³ When I heard this, I tore my garment and my mantle and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.^(A)

³⁴ Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.^(A)

²⁹ When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes.^(A)

¹⁸ Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.^(A)

³⁹ And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not what I want but what you want.”^(A)

³ When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying,