Thematic Bible: Job's friends


Thematic 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.


“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a wadi,
Like the torrents of wadis which vanish,


“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a wadi,
Like the torrents of wadis which vanish,


Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold.


“But you smear with lies;
You are all worthless physicians.