Job 2:11-13
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Job’s Three Friends
11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his home—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him.(A) 12 When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads.(B) 13 They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.(C)
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Job 8:4-7
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4 If your children sinned against him,
he delivered them into the power of their transgression.(A)
5 If you will seek God
and make supplication to the Almighty,[a](B)
6 if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore to you your rightful place.(C)
7 Though your beginning was small,
your latter days will be very great.(D)
Footnotes
- 8.5 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
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