Job 2:11-13

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Job’s Three Friends Come to Help

¹¹ Now Job had three friends: Eliphaz the Temanite [^Cfrom Tema, a town in Edom (1:1)], Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. When these friends heard about Job’s troubles, they agreed to meet and visit him. They wanted to ·show their concern [mourn] and to comfort him. ¹² They ·saw Job [^Llifted their eyes] from far away, but he looked so different they almost didn’t recognize him. They began to cry loudly and tore their robes and put ·dirt [dust] on their heads [^Cancient mourning customs]. ¹³ Then they sat on the ground with Job seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him because they saw how much he was ·suffering [in pain].