11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances(A) came to his house and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a qesitah[a](B) and a gold earring.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 42:11 The value of the currency is unknown.

20 Insults have broken my heart,
and I am in despair.
I waited for sympathy,
but there was none;
for comforters, but found no one.(A)

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“For this is what the Lord says: Don’t enter a house where a mourning feast is taking place.[a] Don’t go to lament or sympathize with them, for I have removed My peace from these people”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“as well as My faithful love and compassion.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:5 Lit house of mourning

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