¹¹ Thus^[a] Job’s three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So^[b] each set out from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met^[c] together to come to console him and to comfort him.

¹² Thus^[d] they lifted up their eyes^[e] from afar, but^[f] they did not recognize him, so^[g] they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment^[h] and threw dust on their heads toward the sky.^{[i] 13} Then^[j] they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, but^[k] no one spoke^[l] a word to him because they saw that his^[m] suffering was very great.