'Friends' in the Bible

When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country -- Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered -- a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.

My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.

All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

With Job's three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job.