friends

¶ Now when Iobs three friends heard of all this euill, that was come vpon him, they came euery one from his owne place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourne with him, and to comfort him.

My friends scorne me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.

1611 marginal noteHeb. are my scorners.

Hee that speaketh flattery to his friends, euen the eyes of his children shall faile.

My kinsefolke haue failed, and my familiar friends haue forgotten me.

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loued, are turned against me.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the men of my secret.

1611 marginal notePsal. 41.9 and 55.19.

Haue pity vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled: because they had found no answere, and yet had condemned Iob.

¶ And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words vnto Iob, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, & against thy two friends: for ye haue not spoken of mee the thing that is right, as my seruant Iob hath.

And the LORD turned the captiuitie of Iob, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gaue Iob twice as much as he had before.

1611 marginal noteHeb. added to Iob vnto the double.