Job's Three Friends

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

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.”

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.

His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.

My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last,

Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”

Then will I also acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.