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.Job 16:1 - 8 read:
Then Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all. Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief]. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased? But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.Job's three friends came to mourn with Job and to comfort him. However to Job, they were "miserable comforters". Their words, though they might be correct, were vain words. Rather than comforting or strengthening Job, they made him more weary and desolate and filled him with wrinkles.
In contrast to Job's friends, we have much better Comforter.
2 Cor 1:3-5 read:
Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.May I not be like Job's friends who added more miseries to Job by being self-righteous. May I first be comforted by my God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. May I then comfort others in trouble with the comfort I myself am comforted of God. Amen.
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