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

He that is afflicted deserves mercy from his friend; but he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.

Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God.

All my intimate friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved are turned against me.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz, the Temanite, My wrath has been kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken by me in uprightness, as my slave Job has.

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

The man that has friends must show himself to be a friend, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father's friend, neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity, for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Temanite

The travelers of Tema looked; the traveling companies of Sheba waited for them.

Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered, and said,

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

Concerning Edom, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? Has the counsel of the wise perished? Is their wisdom corrupted?

Shuhite

Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,

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

Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

To come

Then all his brethren came unto him and all his sisters and all those that had been of his acquaintance before and ate bread with him in his house; and they condoled him and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; each one also gave him an ewe, and an earring of gold.

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 into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword. Who shall comfort thee?

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.

Rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those that weep.

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.

Remember those that are in bonds as bound with them and those who suffer adversity as being yourselves also in the body.