'Friends' in the Bible
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.
“I am a joke to my friends,The one who called on God and He answered him;The just and blameless man is a joke.
“He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil,The eyes of his children also will languish.
“My relatives have failed,And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,For the hand of God has struck me.
And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
“I will answer you,And your friends with you.
It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.
The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.
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