Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 2:13

13. So [they sat down with him upon the ground ] [Seven Days, and Seven Nights, ] and [none spake a word to him:] for they saw that his Grief was very great.

In the posture of Mourners condoling with him.

Which was the usual time of mourning for the Dead, Gen. 50. 10. 1 Sam. 31. 13. and therefore proper both for Iob's Children who were dead, and for Iob himself, who was in a manner dead whilst he lived: But we must not fancy that they continued in this place and posture so long together, which no Laws of Religion or Civility required of them, and the necessities of Nature could not bear; but only that they spent a great, or the greatest part of that time in sitting with him, and silent Mourning over him. And so such General Expressions are frequently understood▪ as Luke 2. 37. and 24. 53. Acts 20. 31. Either 1. About any thing. Or rather, 2. About his Afflictions and the causes of them. The Reason of this silence was partly the greatness of their grief for him, and their surprize and astonishment at his Condition▪ partly because they thought it convenient to give him some further time to vent his own Sorrows, and partly because as yet they knew not what to say to him: for though they had ever esteemed him to be a truly wise and godly Man, and came with full purpose to comfort him, yet the prodigious greatness of his Miseries, and that Hand and Displeasure of God which they manifestly perceived in them, made them at a stand, and to question Iob's Sincerity, so that they could not comfort him as they had intended, and yet were loth to grieve him with those Convictions and Reproofs which they thought he greatly needed. And here they stuck till Iob gave them occasion to speak their Minds.