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11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. 12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:11 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 2:11 Hebrew “And”
  3. Job 2:11 Or “they agreed”
  4. Job 2:12 Hebrew “And”
  5. Job 2:12 Or “they gazed”
  6. Job 2:12 Hebrew “and”
  7. Job 2:12 Hebrew “and”
  8. Job 2:12 Or “robe”
  9. Job 2:12 Or “in the air”; literally “to the heavens”
  10. Job 2:13 Hebrew “And”
  11. Job 2:13 Hebrew “and”
  12. Job 2:13 Or “there was no speaking”
  13. Job 2:13 Literally “the”