Commentary for Bava Batra 32:4
(איוב ב, יא) וישמעו שלשת רעי איוב את כל הרעה הזאת הבאה עליו ויבאו איש ממקומו אליפז התימני ובלדד השוחי וצופר הנעמתי ויועדו יחדו לבוא לנוד לו ולנחמו מאי ויועדו יחדו אמר רב יהודה אמר רב מלמד שנכנסו כולן בשער אחד ותנא בין כל אחד ואחד שלש מאות פרסי
and some say that they had had certain trees, the distortion or withering of which was a sign to them. Raba said: This bears out the popular saying: Either a friend like the friends of Job or death. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply [larob] on the face of the ground and daughters were born to them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. VI, 1. ');"><sup>7</sup></span>
Tosafot on Bava Batra
As it was difficult for Rashba - let Job also be counted, as we say (Bava Batra 15b), "'And the asses were feeding beside them' (Job 1:14) - this teaches that [the Holy One, Blessed be He, had Job taste something akin to the world to come." But it can be said that Job was only in one matter, [whereas] He had Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov taste from all of it.
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