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Three friends of Job who visited him in his affliction and offered him a way of making sense of his troubles: namely, that he was getting what he deserved. Job�s friends maintained that misfortunes were sent by God as punishments for sin, and thus despite Job�s apparent goodness, he must really be a terrible sinner. Job persistently disputed them, saying that God is supreme and mysterious�that God can send misfortunes to both good and wicked people and may not be second-guessed.

A �Job�s comforter� now refers to someone who apparently offers consolation to another person but actually makes the other person feel worse.

They were his so called friends three of whom were Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar amongst others. It's become a saying that a Jobs Comforter is a person who, in trying to offer help or advice, says something that simply adds to the distress as they did when counselling Job .

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