After job breaks the sevenday silence, his friends take turns speaking to him. Esaus son eliphaz had a son named teman genesis 36. Chapter 4 eliphaz 1st speech then eliphaz the temanite answered and said. A term generally understood to refer to a native of teman in edom. Their names were eliphaz the temanite, bildad the shuhite, and zophar the naamathite. Jun 20, 2016 learn more about eliphaz from the eastons bible dictionary. Who was job, when did he live, and where did he live.
Job has sinnedthen eliphaz the temanite answered and said. Then eliphaz the temanite answered and said, job 42. One of the four locutionary friends of job, who was a temanite job 2. Eliphaz the temanite, and bildad the shuhite, and zophar the naamathite. He is one of jobs three friends and wouldbe comforters. The book serves as a powerful refutation of calvinism in this regard. An early edomite king, husham, came from the land of the temanites, and eliphaz, one of jobs three companions, was a temanite.
The word temanite probably indicates that he was an edomite, or member of a palestinian people descended from esau. But i think well see in chapters 4 and 5 of the book of job in this lesson that whatever it is that eliphaz is trying to do it doesnt turn out to be very comforting at all. Eliphazs fault is not that his doctrine is unsound. The word temanite probably indicates that he was an edomite, or member of a palestinian people descended from esau in three speeches of increasing severity, eliphaz attempts to reconcile job to god and induce him. Eliphaz is viewing jobs situation from the standpoint of what he knows and believes. One of jobs three friends who visited him in his affliction 4. One of job s three friends who visited him in his affliction 4. How to pronounce say eliphaz by bible speak pronunciation. The firstborn son of eliphaz was called teman, who was also the first chief of edom genesis 36. The story of job has long been a place of inquiry for those enduring severe trials. If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient.
When three of jobs friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Eliphaz the temanite is the first to speak to job and thus seems to be the leader of jobs three friends. We should note that god, at the end of the book, says that jobs three friends were dead wrong in their reasoning. However, eliphaz, along with bildad and zophar, failed in his attempt to comfort his suffering friend. But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. The midrash relates that when jacob escaped from esau and fled to his uncle laban in haran, esau sent eliphaz to pursue and kill jacob, his uncle, who was his rabbi also.
In his first reply to job s complaints, he argues that those who are truly good are never entirely forsaken by providence, but that punishment may justly be inflicted for secret sins. Famed as the antiheroes of the book of job, eliphaz the temanite, bildad the shuhite and zophar the naamathite deliver some of the longest uninterrupted monologues of the whole bible, speaking expansively on issues pertaining to the character of god, the nature of morality and justice, the essence and attainment of wisdom, the dynamics of the divinehuman relationship, and the experience of. If one attempts a word with you, will you become weary. The people of amalek was the ancestral enemy of the israelite people book of exodus ex 17. Job 22 king james version kjv 22 then eliphaz the temanite answered and said, 2 can a man be profitable unto god, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself. Given the ancient setting of the book of job, it is entirely possible that job s friend and esaus son are. Jan 02, 2020 in job 3237 elihu offers a response to job that lifts up the lord, condemns jobs three friends, and rightly confronts job. His language is uniformly more delicate and gentle than that of the other two, although he imputes to job special sins as the cause of his present sufferings. Its author is unknown yet it is possible that job himself wrote it. Key personalities of this book include job, eliphaz the temanite, bildad the shuhite, zophar the naamathite, and elihu the buzite. His views have an unyielding rigidity to them, which leave no room for understanding or empathizing with job and make eliphaz all too certain of himself. Eliphaz claims to have had a terrifying dream of a spirit who reminded him of the righteousness of god job 4. His friends speak in more or less three rounds, with each speech followed by a reply from job. Commentary on the book of job chapter four by wm w wells.
This begins a long section in the book of job where jobs friends counsel him and he answers them. Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands. The emphasised bible so eliphaz the temanite and bildad the shuhite and zophar the naamathite went, and did according to that which yahweh had spoken unto them, and yahweh accepted job. But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged. Job 22 then eliphaz the temanite answered and said. Eliphazs dream 14 august 2019 17 may 2019 by ray hermann, d. As eliphaz speaks to job, he does so as a temanite,that is, as a representative of the wisdom of the world. At the end of these speeches, god answers job and his friends and settles the matter. He appears in the book of job in the hebrew bible eliphaz appears mild and modest. Then eliphaz the temanite answered and said, job 4.
First, eliphaz the temanite speaks to job in chapters 4 and 5. In eliphaz the temanite the old testament book of job chapters 4, 5, 15, 22, one of three friends who sought to console job, who is a biblical archetype of unmerited suffering. Eliphaz the temanite, in the old testament book of job chapters 4, 5, 15, 22, one of three friends who sought to console job, who is a biblical archetype of unmerited suffering. In job 32 elihu focuses his response on rebuking jobs three friends, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar. Job 4 commentary eliphaz and so, eliphaz begins to speak and tries to comfort job today. So eliphaz the temanite and bildad the shuhite and zophar the naamathite went, and did according as the lord commanded them.
Now when job s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place. Eliphaz says he has carefully studied the theology he presents job 5. Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. The name eliphaz for the spokesman of edomite wisdom may have been suggested to the author of job by the tradition which gave this name to esaus son, the father of theman genesis 36. Job 15 niv bible then eliphaz the temanite replied. Eliphaz the temanite the gospel according to the romans. This article is not a discourse on the whole book of job in the bible, but only concerns the second half of chapter 4, where one of jobs friends explains a dream he once had. It is worth remembering that the lord singled eliphaz out at the end of the book for a special rebuke. Consider his personal discussion with job and eliphaz in job, chapter 42.
Job 4 eliphaz then eliphaz the temanite bible gateway. Eliphaz article about eliphaz by the free dictionary. At the core of that question is the statement that all humans mess up. It is possible that job is the oldest of any book of the bible written approximately 21001800 b. He is one of job s three friends and wouldbe comforters. In the arguments that pass between job and his friends, it is eliphaz who opens each of the three series of discussions.