“Three Friends”
“Three Friends”
Blessings folk!
Job’s physical stuff was destroyed or captured.
Job’s children were dead.
Job was covered with boils.
Job’s wife was nagging…”curse God and die!”
Then…
Job 2:11-13
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.
When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.
Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
Job’s three friends heard what had occurred.
They knew of Job’s situation.
They came to visit.
A rather formal process…
- Came together from their varied locations
- Made an appointment
They came to sympathize.
They came to comfort.
When they saw him, from a distance, they were distraught.
They did not recognize Job.
They raised their voices and wept.
They tore their robes.
They threw dust over their heads.
All signs of mourning.
They joined Job in mourning and pain.
They sat on the ground with him.
Seven days.
Seven night.
Silent.
No one spoke a word.
Why?
Because they saw that his pain was very great.
We see the depths of Job’s pain.
We see the depths of his friends concern.
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