Quotes about Sympathy

When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.

I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

Like one who removes a garment on a cold day or vinegar poured on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.

You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.

When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said, “Do not weep.”