Job 2:9-11

Contemporary English Version

⁹his wife asked, “Why do you still trust God? Why don't you curse him and die?”

¹⁰Job replied, “Don't talk like a fool! If we accept blessings from God, we must accept trouble as well.” In all that happened, Job never once said anything against God.

Job's Three Friends

¹¹Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah^[a] were three of Job's friends, and they heard about his troubles. So they agreed to visit Job and comfort him.

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Footnotes

2.11 Teman … Shuah … Naamah: Teman was a place in northern Edom; Shuah may have been a town on the Euphrates River or else further south, near the towns of Dedan and Sheba; Naamah may have been located on the road between Beirut and Damascus, though its exact location is unknown.