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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the ⁽ⁱ⁾Temanite, Bildad the ^(j)Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to ^(k)sympathize with him and comfort him.

When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them ^(l)tore his robe and they ^(m)threw dust over their heads toward the sky.

⁽ⁿ⁾Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.