Sermon Cloud

Job 2:11-3:1

Job's Three Friends

 ¹¹ When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, 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. ¹² When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. ¹³ Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.

Job 3

Job Speaks

 ¹ After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

This begins his first discourse

Eliphaz speaks in response

Job 4:7-8

 ⁷ "Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? 
       Where were the upright ever destroyed?

 ⁸ As I have observed, those who plow evil 
       and those who sow trouble reap it.

Job speaking

Job 19:23-24

 ²³ "Oh, that my words were recorded, 
       that they were written on a scroll,

 ²⁴ that they were inscribed with an iron tool on ^[a] lead, 
       or engraved in rock forever!

End of the Story

Job 42:7-9

Epilogue

 ⁷ After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. ⁸ So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.