Eliphaz
the friend of Job
Who was Eliphaz?
- Eliphaz the Temanite, one of Job’s three friends. Job 2:11
- He came to comfort Job and sat with him seven days without saying a word. Job 2:11-13
- Later he told Job that he was suffering for his sins. The Lord sent him to Job, so that Job would pray for him. Job 22:5; Job 42:7-8
What the Bible says
Job 2:11
Now when Job’s three friends heard all the evil that had befallen him, they came every one from his own place, Alphas the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him.
Job 2:11-13
11Now when Job’s three friends heard all the evil that had befallen him, they came every one from his own place, Alphas the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him. 12And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out they wept, and rending their garments they sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven. 13And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job 22:5; Job 42:7-8
And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
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