Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Friendship in two movements: share the joy, and share the tears.
Job 2:13
Job 2:13
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.
Before they said a word, Job’s friends sat with him on the ground for seven days. Sometimes being there is the help.
KJVJob 2:13 in context
10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. 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. 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.
A good man loses everything and argues honestly with God, while his friends wrongly blame him for his suffering.
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The Preacher praises companionship: two are better than one, they lift each other up, and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Many couples see God as the third strand.
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Where the friendship of David and Jonathan begins: a king’s son and a shepherd, their souls knit together.
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
Paul, writing to friends far away: every memory of them turns into thanks to God.