'Friends' in the Bible

When Job's three friends heard all these tragedies that happened to him, they each traveled from their home towns to visit him. Eliphaz came from Teman, Bildad came from Shuah, and Zophar came from Naamath. They met together and went to console and comfort him.

"I'm a laughingstock to my friends, someone who called on God. But then he answered this upright and blameless man, and I have become a laughingstock.

My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,

Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail.

my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.

My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me.

"Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.

may thorns spring up instead of wheat, and obnoxious weeds instead of barley." With this, Job's discourse with his friends is completed.

Furthermore, he was furious with his three friends because they had not answered Job, but instead had condemned him.

"Job's friends won't reason with him anymore; discouraged, words escape them.

I'm going to respond to that statement, and to your friends with you."

Will your business be able to buy him, Will you divide him among your merchant friends?

After these words had been spoken by the LORD to Job, the LORD spoke to Eliphaz from Teman: "My anger is burning against you along with your two friends, since you haven't spoken correctly about me, as did my servant Job.

The LORD restored Job's prosperity after he prayed for his friends. The LORD doubled everything that Job had once possessed.