He had seven sons and three daughters,

and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.

His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, 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.

Elihu

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused.

“God does all these things to a person— twice, even three times—

And he also had seven sons and three daughters.