The names of his friends are Eliphaz , Bildad , and Zophar . Towards the end of the book , Job 's friends start to think that Job is not good because a lot of bad things are happening to him . Job 3:1 -42:6 is poetry that consists of a cycle of speeches between Job , Eliphaz , Bildad , Zophar and later Elihu , and then the dialogue between Yahweh and Job .