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11 Thus[a] Job’s three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So[b] each set out from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met[c] together to come to console him and to comfort him.

12 Thus[d] they lifted up their eyes[e] from afar, but[f] they did not recognize him, so[g] they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment[h] and threw dust on their heads toward the sky.[i] 13 Then[j] they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, but[k] no one spoke[l] a word to him because they saw that his[m] suffering was very great.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:11 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 2:11 Hebrew “And”
  3. Job 2:11 Or “they agreed”
  4. Job 2:12 Hebrew “And”
  5. Job 2:12 Or “they gazed”
  6. Job 2:12 Hebrew “and”
  7. Job 2:12 Hebrew “and”
  8. Job 2:12 Or “robe”
  9. Job 2:12 Or “in the air”; literally “to the heavens”
  10. Job 2:13 Hebrew “And”
  11. Job 2:13 Hebrew “and”
  12. Job 2:13 Or “there was no speaking”
  13. Job 2:13 Literally “the”