'Friends' in the Bible

And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

I will make answer to you and to your friends:

And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.