11Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
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Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-13)We have here an account of the kind visit which Job’s three friends paid him in his affliction. The news of his extraordinary troubles spread into all parts, he being an eminent man both for greatness and goodness, and the circumstances of his troubles being very uncommon. Some, who were his enemies, triumphed in his calamities, Job 16:10 ; 19:18 ; 30:1 Perhaps they made ballads on him. But his fr…
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