Commentary on the Book of Job part seven

                                              Job 2:11-13

Three friends of Job "come to mourn with him and comfort him." Their care for Job demonstrated that they had yielded themselves to practice the goodness that God had put into their lives. They also demonstrated that they were true friends of Job.

However, they proved to be incompetent comforters since they offered Job only speculation about the nature of God and Job's relationship to God. Because of their ignorance, they demonstrated that they had not worshipped God or prayed to God very much. They had not relied on revelation from God, which they would have received from prayer and worship, in order to learn more about Him. They merely indulged in guesswork about Him.