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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 (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 .
Job 4:12-5:7: Eliphaz tries to warn Job about complaining against God because only the ungodly resent the dealings of God and by their impatience bring down his wrath upon them. Job 5:8-27: Eliphaz appeals to Job to follow a different course, to seek after God, for God only smites to heal or to correct, to draw people to himself and away from evil.
Zophar only speaks twice to Job, unlike friends Bildad and Eliphaz who each give three speeches. Zophar is the most impetuous and dogmatic of Job's three visitors: He is the first to accuse Job directly of wickedness; claiming that Job's punishment is indeed too good for him (), and he rebukes Job's impious presumption in trying to find out the unsearchable secrets of God (Job 11:7–12).
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
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]
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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]