The Three Friends Arrive

11When Job’s three friends heard about all this trouble that had come upon him, they came each from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They agreed together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

12And when they lifted up their eyes from a distance, they did not recognize him. Then they raised their voices and wept, and each man tore his robe and threw dust over his head toward the heavens.