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10 But he said to her, “You are talking like a woman who lacks moral judgment.[a] If we accept the good that comes from God, shouldn’t we also accept the bad?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Job’s Friends Arrive to Comfort Him

11 Three friends of Job heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, and each of them came from his own homeland: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Na’amathite.[b] They met together and went to sympathize with Job and to comfort him. 12 When they caught sight of Job from a distance, they did not recognize him. They raised their voices and wept. Each man tore his robe and tossed dust into the air and onto his head.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:10 Or who is a fool. The foolishness here is moral and spiritual foolishness rather than intellectual foolishness.
  2. Job 2:11 The stop mark ′ indicates that Na’am- should be pronounced as two syllables.