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OET (OET-LV) And_they_lived with_him/it on_the_ground seven days and_seven nights and_no [one_who]_spoke to_him/it a_word if/because they_saw if/because_that it_was_great the_suffering exceedingly.
OET (OET-RV) Then they sat with him there on the ground for seven days and seven nights without saying a single word to Iyyov because they had seen that his suffering was extreme.
Note 1 topic: translate-symaction
וַיֵּשְׁב֤וּ אִתּוֹ֙ לָאָ֔רֶץ
and=they_lived with=him/it on_the,ground
Job’s friends sat with him on the ground as a symbolic action to express their sincere sympathy with him. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could explain the significance of this action. Alternate translation: “And to express their sincere sympathy, they sat with him on the ground”
2:13 Job’s friends sat on the ground to identify with Job’s suffering (see 2:8).
• The standard period for mourning the death of a notable person or for acknowledging other disastrous news was seven days and nights (Gen 50:10; 1 Sam 31:13; see also Ezek 3:14-15).
OET (OET-LV) And_they_lived with_him/it on_the_ground seven days and_seven nights and_no [one_who]_spoke to_him/it a_word if/because they_saw if/because_that it_was_great the_suffering exceedingly.
OET (OET-RV) Then they sat with him there on the ground for seven days and seven nights without saying a single word to Iyyov because they had seen that his suffering was extreme.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.