Today we hear from the first of Job's friends. Now that he has had time to mourn his loss and lament his pain, his friends attempt to share some words of comfort and consolation.

"Look, you have instructed many, and made firm their feeble hands. Your words have upheld the stumbler; you have strengthened faltering knees. But now that it comes to you, you are impatient; when it touches you, you are dismayed." — JOB 4:3-5