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Eliphaz (Hebrew: אֱלִיפָז ’Ělīp̄āz, "El is pure gold") is called a Temanite . He is one of the friends or comforters of Job in the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible . The first of the three visitors to Job ( Job 2:11 ), he was said to have come from Teman, an important city of Edom ( Amos 1:12 ; Obadiah 9 .
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, [16] " Eliphaz ": from Hebrew : אֱלִיפָז , ’Ělīp̄āz , " El is pure gold " (alternatively, "My God is separate" or "My God is remote" [ 17 ] ), is mentioned first among Job's visitors ( Job 2:11 ), and the first to respond to Job's words, so he is regarded as the oldest.
Eliphaz [5] אֱלִיפָ֑ז By Adah [6] עָדָ֗ה daughter of Elon אֵילֹון֙ the Hittite. (possibly the same Eliphaz the Temanite in the Book of Job ) Married before Jacob's flight to Haran
The characters in the Book of Job consist of Job, his wife, his three friends (Bildad, Eliphaz, and Zophar), a man named Elihu, God, and angels. It begins with an introduction to Job's character—he is described as a blessed man who lives righteously in the Land of Uz .
Bildad's speech is charged with somewhat increased vehemence, compared to Eliphaz who spoke first, because Bildad found Job's words too angry and impious. He was the first of Job's friends to attribute Job's calamity to actual wickedness; however, he does so indirectly, by accusing Job's children (who were destroyed in the opening scenes, Job 1 ...
Teman (Hebrew: תימן), was the name of an Edomite clan and of its eponym, according to the Hebrew Bible, [1] and an ancient biblical town of Arabia Petraea. [dubious – discuss] The term is also traditionally used in Biblical Hebrew as the synonym of the direction south and was applied to being used as the Hebrew name of Yemen (whose Arabic name is "Yaman") due to its location in the ...
The first part of this section contains Eliphaz's rebuke to Job for the choices Job made and the emptiness of the words of Job, who thinks of himself as a wise man (verses 1–6). [11] Eliphaz concerns that Job undermines the proper attitude of respecting God (Eliphaz is the only one of Job's three friends who refers to the "fear of God"). [12]
One of the protagonists in Job is Eliphaz the Temanite, and Genesis 36 refers to Husham of the land of the Temanites. Outside of the Bible, it was mentioned by Ptolemy, [11] Pliny, [12] Agatharchides, [13] [14] and Josephus. [15] It was noted as halfway between Damascus and Mecca, and between Babylonia and Egypt. [16]