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Now when Job's three friends heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, they came, each one from his own place—Eliphaz the ^(C1)Temanite, Bildad the ^(C2)Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to ^(C3)sympathize with him and comfort him.

When they ^(F1)looked from a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them ^(C1)tore his robe, and they ^(C2)threw dust over their heads toward the sky.

^(C1)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.