9. Job’s wife said to him, “Are you still trying to stay innocent? You should just curse God and die!”
10. Job answered, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Should we take only good things from God and not trouble?” In all this Job did not sin in what he said.
11. Now Job had three friends. They were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. These friends heard about the troubles that had happened to Job. So they agreed to meet and go see Job. They wanted to show him they were upset for him, too. And they wanted to comfort him.
12. They saw Job from far away. But he looked so different they almost didn’t recognize him. They began to cry loudly. They tore their robes and put dirt on their heads to show how sad they were.
13. Then they sat on the ground with Job seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him. This was because they saw how much he was suffering.