A Walk Through Job - Magnitude of Job's Suffering

 

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.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off,
and knew him not,
they lifted up their voice, and wept;

and they rent every one his mantle,
and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

 

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights,

and none spake a word unto him:

for they saw that his grief was very great.

Job 2:11-13