¹¹ Now when Job’s three friends heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, they came, each one from his own place—Eliphaz the ^(A)Temanite, Bildad the ^(B)Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to ^(C)sympathize with him and comfort him. ¹² When they ^[a]looked from a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them ^(D)tore his robe, and they ^(E)threw dust over their heads toward the sky. ^13 (F)Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

God Is Displeased with Job’s Friends

⁷ It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, ^(A)as My servant Job has. ⁸ Now therefore, take for yourselves ^(B)seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a ^(C)burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will ^(D)pray for you. ^(E)For I will ^[a]accept him so as not to do with you as your foolishness deserves, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has.”