'Friends' in the 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.

I am a laughingstock to my friends: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock.

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

He denounces friends for reward, so his children's eyes will fail.

My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.

All {my intimate friends} abhor me, and these [whom] I have loved have turned against me.

"Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.

and {he became angry} at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty.

I myself {will give answer to you} and [to] your friends with you.

{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.