The Visit of Job’s Friends38

2:11 When 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. 2:12 But when they gazed intently44 from a distance but did not recognize45 him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.46 2:13 Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain47 was very great.48

II. Job’s Dialogue With His Friends (3:1–27:23)49