LXX Concordance for φίλοι

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows seventy-five feet[fn] tall. Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai is Jewish, and you have begun to fall before him, you won't overcome him, because your downfall is certain.”

Now when Job's three friends ​— ​Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite ​— ​heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

He has removed my brothers from me;

my acquaintances have abandoned me.

Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,

for God's hand has struck me.

So these three men quit answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

After the LORD had finished speaking[fn] to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.

Then Job died, old and full of days.

My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction,

and my relatives stand at a distance.

God, how precious[fn] your thoughts are to me;

how vast their sum is!

A poor person is hated even by his neighbor,

but there are many who love the rich.

The mind of the righteous person thinks before answering,

but the mouth of the wicked blurts out evil things.

These too are proverbs of Solomon,

which the men of King Hezekiah of Judah copied.

“As for you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, you will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon. There you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you prophesied lies.' ”

For I have heard the gossip of many people,

“Terror is on every side!

Report him; let's report him! ”

Everyone I trusted[fn] watches for my fall.

“Perhaps he will be deceived

so that we might prevail against him

and take our vengeance on him.”

All your lovers have forgotten you;

they no longer look for you,

for I have struck you as an enemy would,

with the discipline of someone cruel,

because of your enormous guilt

and your innumerable sins.

urging them to ask the God of the heavens for mercy concerning this mystery, so Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of Babylon's wise men.