Job 2:11
“In the meantime, while the friends investigated Job's case and made preparations for their journey, there is no doubt that many days passed. They were all lords and men of princely rank. Job's three friends signified the class of the high priests, the priests and the prophets, who flourished among the Jews. And Job's…”
Source: Septuagint
11Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him, Came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Temanites, Bildad sovereign of the Shuhites, Zophar king of the Minaeans: And they came to him with one accord, To comfort and to visit him.
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9And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long wilt thou hold out, saying, a Behold, I wait yet a little while, Expecting the hope of my deliverance? b For, behold, thy memorial is abolished from the earth, Even thy sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb Which I bore in vain with sorrows; c And thou thyself sittest down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, d And I am a wanderer and a servant From place to place and house to house, Waiting for the setting of the sun, That I may rest from my labors and my pangs which now beset me: e But say some word against the Lord, and die.
10But he looked on her, and said to her, Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.
— Job 2:11 —
12And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; And they cried with a loud voice, and wept, And rent every one his garment, And sprinkled dust upon their heads,
13And they sat down beside him seven days and seven nights, And no one of them spoke; For they saw that his affliction was dreadful and very great.