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I. Three Comforters Arrive (2:11-13) 

 A. Job’s Adversity  is Made Public (11a)  

 B. Three Friends Arrive from  Afar (11b-13)  

  1. Their Names (tell us where they  came from)

   a. Eliphaz the Temanite

   b. Bildad the Shuhite

   c. Zophar the Naamathite

  2. Their Reaction  (12)

   a. From  a distance they  did not recognize Job

    (1) Remember Job is now at the town dump

    (2) But he was not recognizable!

     (a) Isaiah 53

   b. These are signs of  great anguish, of  entering into someone else’s sorrow  

3. Their Compassion (13)

   a. 7 days and nights of  silence

    (1) This silence is taken different ways by  different commentators