11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite,q Bildad the Shuhiter and Zophar the Naamathite,s 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.t 12 When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him;u they began to weep aloud,v and they tore their robesw and sprinkled dust on their heads.x 13 Then they sat on the groundy with him for seven days and seven nights.z No one said a word to him,a because they saw how great his suffering was.