11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite,(A) Bildad the Shuhite(B) and Zophar the Naamathite,(C) heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.(D)

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11 Now 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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Job’s Three Friends

11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place—Eliphaz the (A)Temanite, Bildad the (B)Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come (C)and mourn with him, and to comfort him.

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11 Are God’s consolations(A) not enough for you,
    words(B) spoken gently to you?(C)

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11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

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11 Are the consolations of God too small for you,
And the word spoken [a]gently with you?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 15:11 Or a secret thing

19 When anxiety(A) was great within me,
    your consolation(B) brought me joy.

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19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

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19 In the multitude of my anxieties within me,
Your comforts delight my soul.

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