when Jobs three friends heard] Which were men of authority, and came to comfort him; but when they saw how he was visited, they conceived an evill opinion of him, as though he had been but an hypocrite, and so justly plagued of God for his sins. the Temanite] Of Teman the Edomite, Genesis 36:11. the Shubite] Of Shuah Abrahams son by Keturah, Genesis 25:2.