By Chloe Langr, Aleteia - We can learn a lot about empathy from the book of Job… Then, Job’s three friends hear about his misfortune and leave their homes and come to visit Job… How do they comfort him? They cry with him, sit down beside him, and tear their clothes. Then they sit with him, on the ground, for seven days and seven nights. Not a single word was spoken for a week because they “saw how great was his suffering.”