Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 2:11 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 11. 11Now 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: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
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Role in This Section
Job 2:11 opens the thought unit with the words “Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every….” The prose narrator develops the next stated step through “Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every…” as part of The Friends Arrive and Keep Seven Days of Silence.
Read It With
- Job 2:11–2:13
Read Job 2:11 with 2:11–2:13. Read alone, “Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar come to mourn and comfort; they weep, enact grief, and sit silently because Job's pain is very great.
Why It Needs Context
Job 2:11 depends on 2:11–2:13; isolating “Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from The prose narrator and “The Friends Arrive and Keep Seven Days of Silence.”
Read Job 2:11–13 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 2:11–2:13 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained prose scene: “The Friends Arrive and Keep Seven Days of Silence.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 11. 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 Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Verse 12. 12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Verse 13. 13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 2:11–2:13 — The Friends Arrive and Keep Seven Days of SilenceSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 2:11–2:13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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