Job 2:13 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.

Job’s friends came to console Job in his grief. I can understand how they felt, not having the words to comfort their dear friend. Seven days they kept silent. That is a long time to remain silent.

Then Eliphaz said to Job in 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

What was running through the mind of his friend that he should try and comfort Job with these words?

Job 5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Pour it on.

Bildad speaks in 8:6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

Are you sure these are friends?

Zophar says in 11:3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Okay, I’ve heard enough. Why would men that love Job speak to him in this way?

What I find difficult here is not that these men misspoke but that they used biblical precepts and scriptures to wound Job above that which he already suffered. You will find scriptures similar to these in Psalms and Proverbs but here they are poorly used. They are taken out of context, much like I picked and chose to use them here.

All the good which might have been done in anything else said is undone in these words.

Ecclesiastes 5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

Let my words be few.