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Eliphaz (Job) Fresco from the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow depicting Job and his friends. Eliphaz (Hebrew: אֱלִיפָז ’Ělīp̄āz, " El is pure gold ") is called a Temanite (Job 4:1). 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 ...
Job and His Friends by Ilya Repin (1869) The Hebrew Book of Job is part of Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible. Not much is known about Job based on the Masoretic Text. 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.
Elihu (biblical figure) The Wrath of Elihu (1805) by William Blake; one of his series of illustrations of the Book of Job. Elihu (Hebrew: אֱלִיהוּא ’Elihu, 'my God is he') is a critic of Job and his three friends in the Hebrew Bible 's Book of Job. He is said to have been the son of Barachel and a descendant of Buz, who may have been ...
A scroll of the Book of Job, in Hebrew. The Book of Job consists of a prose prologue and epilogue narrative framing poetic dialogues and monologues. [4] It is common to view the narrative frame as the original core of the book, enlarged later by the poetic dialogues and discourses, and sections of the book such as the Elihu speeches and the wisdom poem of chapter 28 as late insertions, but ...
Bildad. Gustave Doré, Job Speaks with His Friends. Bildad (Biblical Hebrew: בִּלְדַּד, romanized: Bildaḏ; [a] Ancient Greek: Βαλδάδ, romanized: Baldád), the Shuhite, was one of Job 's three friends who visited the patriarch in the Hebrew Bible 's Book of Job. He was a descendant of Shuah, son of Abraham and Keturah ...
Unlike friends Bildad and Eliphaz, Zophar only speaks twice to Job.He is the most impetuous and dogmatic of the three. Zophar is the first to accuse Job directly of wickedness; averring indeed that his punishment is too good for him (), he rebukes Job's impious presumption in trying to find out the unsearchable secrets of God (Job 11:7–12); and yet, like Job's other friends, he promises ...
Job (Arabic: أيوب, romanized: Ayūb) is known as a prophet in Islam and is mentioned in the Quran. [1] [2] Job's story in Islam is parallel to the Hebrew Bible's story, although the main emphasis is on Job remaining steadfast to God; there is no mention of Job's discussions with friends in the Qur'anic text, but later Muslim literature states that Job had brothers, who argued with the man ...
Daniel Kottke (/ ˈkɒtki /) is an American businessman known for having been a college friend of Steve Jobs and one of the first employees of Apple Inc. He met Jobs at Reed College in 1972, and they trekked together through India for spiritual enlightenment and to the All One Farm. In 1976, Kottke realized his interest in computers when Jobs ...