'Friends' in the Bible

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, and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.

My friends scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah 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 Job hath.

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.