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"The Vision of Eliphaz", from Illustrations of the Book of Job, by William Blake (c. 1825–1826). Eliphaz' argument is, in part, rooted in what he believes to have been a personal revelation which he received through a dream (Job 4:12-16): "an elusive word [stealed] past, quiet like a whisper", [5] and after a silence he heard a voice saying:
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.
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.
The Vision of Eliphaz: Then a Spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up Job Rebuked by His Friends: The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn Engraving c. 1793: Job's Evil Dreams: With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me & affrightest me with Visions The Wrath of Elihu
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 ...
Jacob gave everything he had with him to Eliphaz and said, ”Take what I have, for a poor man is counted as dead." Eliphaz was satisfied and left his uncle and rabbi poor, but still alive: (Rashi to the Book of Genesis Gen 29:11) According to Louis Ginzburg's Legends of the Jews, Eliphaz was a prophet. [4]
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 .
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]