Friends Like These Lyrics

With friends like these who needs enemies!

With friends like these who needs enemies!

So Job lies diseased bankrupt and bereaved

Everything lost in the blink of an eye

Wife walked out the door but three friends (and a fourth?)

In his hour of need come and stand by his side

A true friend will fight with you through the night

Battling back-to-back in the eye of the storm

But some friends (so-called) actually have the gall

To tell you all the ways that you underperformed

With friends like these who needs enemies!

With friends like these who needs enemies!

An Atheist a Buddhist a Christian moralist

Of all Job's friends the wisest three

Don't worry if you find it a challenge to follow this

Try taking notes call them A B and C

We've condensed their dialogue; they verbalized a lot!

What you have here are just summaries:

A simple attempt to perhaps represent

The substance of their different philosophies

With friends like these who needs enemies!

With friends like these who needs enemies!

Surely implicit in coming to visit him

Was the desire to encourage their friend

However the fact is they could do with some practice

Encouragement clearly wasn't their strength

To be fair to begin with they at least didn't sin with

Their mouths—they kept silent and said not a word

But imagine! how awkward for Job to be cornered

In front of their eyes like a caged flightless bird

With friends like these who needs enemies!

With friends like these who needs enemies!

Silent they stood there and misunderstood their

Role They should merely have consoled their friend

Instead of playing the devil explaining

Things which mere humans cannot comprehend

But first before they begin to portray

This crisis as being somehow Job's fault

He breaks the silence explosion of violence!

A blast from his lips like a thunderbolt

With friends like these who needs enemies!

With friends like these who needs enemies!

With friends like these who needs enemies!

With friends like these who needs enemies!