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"When Job's three friends heard of" his suffering,  they decided to visit him, sympathize and comfort him (2:11b).  Who wouldn't visit his friend in his troubled days?  But when they got there, they saw something that they did not expect. "When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him.  And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven" (Job 2:12).   Job's suffering was seen from the distance.  Job's friends had hard time recognizing him when they came to visit.  Job's disease crippled him to a form that he didn't had his looks.  In order for a disease to cripple a person, person had to be very sick.  Maybe job lost lot's weight. We know Job clothes were torn and his head was shaved (Job 1:20).  In addition, Job was covered in sores, possible bleeding because he had a "piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes"...

http://www.skybluevaping.co.za/image/data/journal/1383-1.jpg The tone of the conversation was different when Satan appeared before God second time. Not because Satan repented or agreed with God, but because his hypothesis fell short.  Satan just destroyed Jobs wealth and his children (seven sons and three daughters) using evil men, fire, and wind arguing that this was the reason why Job served God in the first place. Job response to his lost was not a cursing God attitude but a humble worship.  “ Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return.  The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord ” (Job 1:20).    When Satan appears before God second time, God asked him the same question as he did in the first conversation,  "' Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and ...

http://dailymedit.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/fv.jpg%3Fw%3D610%26h%3D126 Not having the insight of the discussion that took between God and Satan, we would be left with Job's friends speculating and discussing why Job suffered.  Reading the book of Job in full, we see a bigger picture. The book of Job reveals to us the things that are hidden from Job and his friends–the conversation that took between God and Satan. God, asked Satan a question when he appeared before Him. " And the LORD said to Satan, 'Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?' ” (Job 1:8).  To which, Satan had to say this: “ 'Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land '” (Job 1:9-10).  Satan accused God a...