“And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.”
When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes. Reuben's return to the cistern and the tearing of his clothes is the grief of the one whose rescue plan has been undone in his absence. The application: the person who tried to do right and failed — who was absent at the decisive moment — carries a specific grief that is different from the grief of those who did wrong deliberately.
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