Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God. The permission seems to have extended to this, as well as to torturing the body.