Job 2: 11 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 ...

Where did Job’s three friends (Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite), and Job himself, go so wrong as to call forth God’s reprimand at the end of the book?

The author of the Book of Job puts these words into the mouth of Eliphaz the Temanite, one of Job’s friends: “For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground.

Job's rebuke of his "comforters", Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, varies between plain-spoken ("wretched consolers are you all") and vivid metaphor ...