Now when the three friends of Job heard of all this misfortune which had befallen him, - they came, every man from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, - for they had by appointment met together to come to shew sympathy with him, and to comfort him.

Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.

Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said: -

Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!

Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them, - and Yahweh accepted Job.