Bible Dictionary: Friendship: Job and his Three "Friends"

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Job 2:11-13
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come on him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
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Virtue must Never be Given up for the Sake of a Friend. ...
... this the worst point on which to condemn his treachery, namely ... their friend, so that
the prayer of friendship might win ... Therefore Job asked and God pardoned. ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xxii virtue must never.htm

Blessed Adversity.
... the sorrow, restored to him the love and friendship of those ... and blessed the latter
end of Job more than ... His sheep, his camels, his oxen, and his asses, were ...
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That the Friendship of Good Men Cannot be Securely Rested In, So ...
... For if their life has solaced us with the charms of friendship, can it be ... contrive
so to use them that no sweetness shall distil into his spirit. ... [1274] Job 7:1 ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 8 that the friendship of.htm

The Intercourse of God and his Friend
... The effect of friendship with God is not to make ... of the seventy-third Psalm, or of
Job and Ecclesiastes ... friend of God, because no facts in his experience had ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the intercourse of god and.htm

Notes
... only are proper objects of charity"friendship not trustworthy ... as the dark ways of
providence which Job and his ... idea of the Creator's joy in his creation"a ...
/.../various/select masterpieces of biblical literature/notes.htm

Book Three the Story of his Student Days in Carthage, his ...
... I lived with them, and at times I was delighted with their friendship, even when ...
Job 2:7, 8. ... had in mind is God's command to Abraham to offer up his son Isaac ...
/.../augustine/confessions and enchiridion/book three the story of.htm

But, Says Some One, "Are These Things to be Understood of the Lord ...
... and spitting." This also is written among His other sufferings ... the phrase "xenium,"
"A pledge of friendship," this also ... this also it is written in Job, "May the ...
/.../21 but says some one.htm

A Continuation of Mr. Bunyan's Life, Beginning Where He Left Off ...
... them, as it happened in the case of Job's praying for ... all that lay in his power to
his word, not ... loving to reconcile differences, and make friendship with all ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a continuation of mr bunyans.htm

Aaron, his Office no Palliation of his Sin, 61.
... Gregory, of Nazianzus, his friendship for Olympias, [168]287. ... Job, his thanksgiving
amidst affliction, [223]183 ... Patriarch of Alexandria, his intrigues against ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/aaron his office no palliation.htm

Messiah Unpitied, and Without a Comforter
... a person for converse or society (compare Job 30:29 ... possible, for some relief or
alleviation of His misery. ... by those who have expressed great friendship, or are ...
/.../newton/messiah vol 1/sermon xxii messiah unpitied and.htm

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