To him that is ready to faint kindness [should be showed] from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

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 Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.

As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.