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On learning of Job's affliction, three bloved friends ... Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, agreed together to travel to Uz in order to console Job. The term for friends has a wide range of meanings, including an intimated counselor ... a close friend ... a party in a legal dispute. Friends often solemnized their relationsjip with a covenant, promising to care for each other under all kinds of circumstances. The relationship between Job and his three friends give every evidence of being based on a covenant. ... Such a relationship was characterized by loyal love. ... Motivated by love and their commitment, these men came to console and to comfort Job. The word to console ... means literally " to shake the head or to rock the body back and forth" as a sign of shared grief. TO comfort ... is to attempt to eas the depest pain caused by a tragedy or death ... With the noblest intentions, these three earnestly desired to help Job bear his sorrow. |
John Hartley |
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