Quotes About Empathy

Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”

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

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

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

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widowís eyes to fail,

if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

If I have rejoiced in my enemyís ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

Jobís friends are dismayed, with no more to say; words have escaped them.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within 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.

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.