“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”

If I say, “My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,”

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.

When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country – Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.