11 Then came to him all his (A)brothers and sisters and all who had (B)known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they (C)showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil[a] that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him (D)a piece of money[b] and (E)a ring of gold.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 42:11 Or disaster
  2. Job 42:11 Hebrew a qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value

Job's Three Friends

11 Now when Job's three (A)friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz (B)the Temanite, Bildad (C)the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to (D)show him sympathy and comfort him.

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When a man's ways please the Lord,
    (A)he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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13 “He has put my (A)brothers far from me,
    and (B)those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
14 My relatives (C)have failed me,
    my close (D)friends have forgotten me.

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22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel,[a] and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 24:22 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

12 Therefore (A)lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

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(A)Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.

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26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, (A)all rejoice together.

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15 (A)Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

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(A)Strengthen the weak hands,
    and make firm the feeble knees.
Say to those who have an anxious heart,
    “Be strong; fear not!
(B)Behold, your God
    will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
    He will come and save you.”

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I could strengthen you with my mouth,
    and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

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Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
    and you have (A)made firm the feeble knees.

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27 But some (A)worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

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32 (A)As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land (B)that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money.[a] It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:32 Hebrew for a hundred qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value

35 All his sons and all his daughters (A)rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, (B)I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

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53 And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.

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19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary (A)to console them concerning their brother.

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22 Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?
    Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?
23 Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary's hand’?
    Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of (A)the ruthless’?

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