Job 2:11
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The Visit of Job’s Friends38
2:11When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country39—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.40 They met together41 to come to show sympathy42 for him and to console43 him.
Footnotes
- 38 See N. C. Habel, “ ‘Only the Jackal is My Friend,’ On Friends and Redeemers in Job,” 31 (1977): 227–36.
- 39 Heb “a man from his place”; this is the distributive use, meaning “each man came from his place.”
- 40 Commentators have tried to analyze the meanings of the names of the friends and their locations. Not only has this proven to be difficult (Teman is the only place that is known), it is not necessary for the study of the book. The names are probably not symbolic of the things they say.
- 41 The verb can mean that they “agreed together”; but it also (and more likely) means that they came together at a meeting point to go visit Job together.
- 42 The verb “to show grief” is נוּד (nud), and literally signifies “to shake the head.” It may be that his friends came to show the proper sympathy and express the appropriate feelings. They were not ready for what they found.
- 43 The second infinitive is from נָחָם (nakham, “to comfort, console” in the Piel). This word may be derived from a word with a meaning of sighing deeply.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
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NLTNew Living Translation
When three of Job’s friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Thus Job’s three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.
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KJV 1900King James Version
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
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