He considers tears to be gifts from God that demonstrate sorrow and compel others to have compassion for the weeper. |
All her weariness left her, all her sadness and bitterness were gone, sorrow was far behind her. |
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, makes the night morning, and the noontide night. |
He came out, bowed down with sorrow, to settle on a bench, his voice quavering with a barely audible Yiddish lament. |
Do we not need to roundly condemn Job's comforters for offering theology instead of solace at their friend's time of sorrow? |
That must always leave us with a sense of bitter regret and abiding sorrow. |