¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.^(A)

¹¹ When 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) 12} When 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) 13} Then 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.

Praise to the God of All Comfort

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,^(A) the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, ⁴ who comforts us^(B) in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. ⁵ For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ,^(C) so also our comfort abounds through Christ. ⁶ If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation;^(D) if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.

¹⁶ Let us then approach^(A) God’s throne of grace with confidence,^(B) so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

²⁵ Therefore he is able to save^(A) completely^[a] those who come to God^(B) through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.^(C)

¹⁰ After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes^(A) and gave him twice as much as he had before.^(B)