Job 2:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Friends

Proverbs 27:10

Temanite

Shuhite

To come

Hebrews 13:3

Bible References

Friends

To him who is ready to faint, kindness [should be] from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God

All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.

And it was so, that, after LORD had spoken these words to Job, LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Jo

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.

Temanite

The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,

And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

Of Edom. Thus says LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Shuhite

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.

To come

Then there came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that LORD ha

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

These two things have befallen thee (Who shall bemoan thee?): Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword. How shall I comfort thee?

and many of the Jews had come to the women, about Martha and Mary, so that they might console them about their brother.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep,

And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer together, or one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together.

Remember the prisoners as being in bondage together, those who are ill-treated as also yourselves being in the body.