Job 2:11-13

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¹¹When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite,^(A) Bildad the Shuhite^(B) and Zophar the Naamathite,^(C) heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.^(D) ¹²When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him;^(E) they began to weep aloud,^(F) and they tore their robes^(G) and sprinkled dust on their heads.^(H) ¹³Then they sat on the ground^(I) with him for seven days and seven nights.^(J) No one said a word to him,^(K) because they saw how great his suffering was.

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Job 16:1-5

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Job

16 Then Job replied:

²“I have heard many things like these;
    you are miserable comforters,^(A) all of you!^(B)
³Will your long-winded speeches never end?^(C)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?^(D)
⁴I also could speak like you,
    if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
    and shake my head^(E) at you.
⁵But my mouth would encourage you;
    comfort^(F) from my lips would bring you relief.^(G)