You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant job has. Addressing the problem of theodicy the vindication of the justice of god in the light of humanitys suffering it is a rich theological work setting out a variety of perspectives. Eliphaz bildad zophar neviim tovim, blogs by gillian. Most of the book tells about job and his friends talking. The three friends of job represent three ways of solving the mysterious problems of divine government in the affairs of men. Naked i came from my mothers womb, and naked i will depart. As the speeches progress, jobs friends increasingly berate him for refusing to confess his sins, although they themselves are.
However, all three wrongly assumed that jobs suffering was the result of some hidden sin. 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. In job 3237 elihu offers a response to job that lifts up the lord, condemns jobs three friends, and rightly confronts job. Bildad, along with eliphaz and zophar, visit job after they heard of the calamity that had befallen him. Eliphaz, bildad, and zopharpeople wey blame job bible book. His comments can be found in job chapter 11 and 20. He suggests that jobs suffering could be divine punishment, and goes into great detail about the consequences of living a life of sin. 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. How does gods response speak against the consolation given by jobs three friends eliphaz, bildad, and zophar. But they didn t actually comfort him at all, when we see the way they spoke to him later on. Bildad the shuhite is the symbol of human tradition or philosophy. At the end of job 2, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar enter stage left. He appears in the book of job in the hebrew bible eliphaz appears mild and modest. When jobs three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar heard of his adversity.
Job s three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar sermon index. When bildad first arrives, he cannot believe the horrific nature of jobs condition. Unlike friends bildad and eliphaz, zophar only speaks twice to job. Job is suffering, therefore job is being punished for wrong doing. He is the most impetuous and dogmatic of the three. He is called the shuhite, probably as belonging to shuah, a district in arabia, in which shuah, the sixth son of abraham by keturah, settled genesis 25. Eliphaz the temanite was one of jobs three friends who showed up to comfort job but ended up adding to his misery by asserting that jobs suffering was a punishment for secret sin. He had been successful in silencing eliphaz, bildad, and zophar, but he does not say one word against elihu even though elihu challenged him in 33. But they didnt actually comfort him at all, when we see the way they spoke to him later on. The easiest explanation for this silence is that job agreed with him. Please login register or post pronunciation as guest.
Jobs three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar sermon index. Job pokes fun at bildad asking him what spirit revealed it to him because he recognizes the argument as eliphazs. All three friends believed that the unrighteous suffer. They believed there were no exceptions to the rule that god blesses good people and punishes bad people in this life. Good news translation eliphaz, bildad, and zophar did what the lord had told them to do, and the lord answered jobs prayer. Bildad has answered, god does not discort justice, bildad asserts, therefore, jobs children have offended god. When job s three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar heard of his adversity, they came to visit him, saying they wanted to comfort him job 2. When bildad first arrives, he cannot believe the horrific nature of job s condition. Why was god angry about what eliphaz, bildad, and zophar said to.
Job had 3 friends that showed up for him in his time of need. When jobs friends heard about the things that happened to him they went to comfort him. Eliphaz job had sinned in demanding that the creator of everything condescend to answer him. In his first reply to jobs 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. 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 recent trends have tended to concentrate on the. These guys have plenty to say, and job isnt their biggest fan. May 22, 2015 the book of job is about more than suffering. His three speeches were shorter and more hurtful than those of eliphaz. Jobs friends came to counsel him eliphaz, bildad, zophar a fourth person, elihu appears later in the book. On the seventh day, job speaks, beginning a conversation in which each of the four men shares his thoughts on jobs afflictions in long, poetic statements. 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. Jobs three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar by zac poonen when jobs three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar heard of his adversity, they came to visit him, saying they wanted to comfort him job 2. Zophar is the last jobs friends to attempt an explanation for jobs suffering.
Eliphaz the temanite, bildad the shuhite, and zophar the naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. In his first reply to job s complaints, he argues that those who are truly good are never entirely forsaken by providence. Like the others, bildad and zophar, eliphaz assumes that all suffering is punishment for wrong doing. Eliphaz, bildad and zophar 1 ancient pagan religions prescribed three treatments for those in jobs condition. So we will look at zophars speech in job chapter 11 and how he seeks to reel in job. He suggests that job s suffering could be divine punishment, and goes into great detail about the consequences of living a life of sin.
Lets see how this main point plays out in the debates between job and his three friends. It is unwise to pull an isolated verse from the book of job and use it to. Three of job s friends, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar, come to visit him, sitting with job in silence for seven days out of respect for his mourning. On the seventh day, job speaks, beginning a conversation in which each of the four men shares his thoughts on job s afflictions in long, poetic statements. Such a one will see his sons crushed and his harvest depleted c. Towards the end of the book, jobs friends start to think that job is not good because a lot of bad things are happening to him. Job s three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar sermon. In the land of uz there lived a man whose name was job. Help asap will give 100 points two factors characterizing. Elihu is identified only as the son of barakel the buzite, of the family of ram job 32.
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. With that in mind, eliphaz interprets jobs musings as whining. The force of jobs protest is all the greater because it is set against the conventional pieties of his comforters, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar, who respond to each of his laments with blind insistence that, if god punishes job, job must deserve it somehow. After eliphaz, bildad the shuhite is the second of jobs friends to speak. The book of job introduction to philosophy of religion. In the very first book of the bible, we see the beginning of the modern health. Like the other two comforters, bildad and eliphaz, zophar emphasizes an old hebrew conceptsuffering is the inevitable lot of the evil man. Eliphaz the temanite is the symbol of human experience or history. God, job, bildad, elihu, satan, eliphaz, and zophar. Job pokes fun at bildad asking him what spirit revealed it to him because he recognizes the argument as eliphaz s spiritual revelation.
Dec 29, 2011 the book of job wednesday evening at calvary chapel spring valley, las vegas, nevada with pastor derek neider. Accused job of empty talk and told him to put away his evil practices. The difference between job and his three friends knowable word. Be careful of the folly of eliphaz, bildad, zophar jobs. Bildad, in the old testament, one of the three principal comforters of job. 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. Their names were eliphaz the temanite, bildad the shuhite, and zophar the naamathite. Indeed i waited for your words, i listened to your reasonings, while you searched out what to say. Speeches of eliphaz, bildad, and zophar speeches of eliphaz, bildad, and zophar. Zophar the naamathite is the symbol of human merit or moral law. Three of jobs friends, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar, come to visit him, sitting with job in silence for seven days out of respect for his mourning. In job 32 elihu focuses his response on rebuking jobs three friends, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar.
So eliphaz the temanite and bildad the shuhite and zophar the naamathite went, and did according as the lord commanded them. He was the third to speak and the harshest accuser. He appears in the book of jo b in the hebrew bibl e. Be careful of the folly of eliphaz, bildad, zophar jobs friends. Although quickwitted, and quick to respond, eliphaz loses his composure in chapter 22, accusing job of oppressing widows and orphans, a far cry from how he had originally described job.
Job had three friends visit him, eliphaz, bildad and zophar. When he sees how massive jobs punishment is, he compares that to his handy dandy chart of sintopunishment ratios, and concludes that job must have done something awful 22. So far, eliphaz and bildad have answered job and now it is zophars turn. After the lord allowed satan to afflict job, three of his friends, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar, came to comfort him. Eliphaz was the oldest and considered the wisest of the three. Like the other two comforters, bildad and eliphaz, zophar emphasizes an old hebrew conceptsuffering is the inevitable lot of the evil m.
E fit be sey na from teman wey dey edom e come from. My servant job will pray for you, and i will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. This wisdom is the result of ages of thought and experience compare job 15. Bildads arguments with job reveal him to be a sage who looks to the authority of tradition. Each man urged job to repent so that god would have mercy on him. And surely not one of you convinced job, or answered his words. After eliphaz and bildad, zophar spoke third in offering advice to job. Therefore i say, listen to me, i also will declare my opinion. Jan 02, 2020 bildad, along with eliphaz and zophar, visit job after they heard of the calamity that had befallen him. Contextual overview 11 eliphaz from teman, bildad from shuah, and zophar from naamah were three of jobs friends, and they heard about his troubles. And in their great sorrow, they tore their clothes, then sprinkled dust on their heads and cried bitterly. The book of job consists of a prose prologue and epilogue narrative framing poetic dialogues and monologues. The force of job s protest is all the greater because it is set against the conventional pieties of his comforters, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar, who respond to each of his laments with blind insistence that, if god punishes job, job must deserve it somehow. Eliphaz the temanite was one of job s three friends who showed up to comfort job but ended up adding to his misery by asserting that job s suffering was a punishment for secret sin.
The book of job wednesday evening at calvary chapel spring valley, las vegas, nevada with pastor derek neider. After eliphaz, bildad the shuhite is the second of job s friends to speak. This is fruitless because, job contends no mortal cant be just before god. So eliphaz, bildad, and zophar were not able to sustain their theory in the face. Implied that jobs sons had sinned and deserved the calamity that struck them and suggested that job himself was godless. Throughout the book of job, this is the major question that god is answering. While eliphaz defaulted to jobs pious track record to frame his discourse on gods justice, and bildad began by deflecting attention to the example of jobs children, zophars first statements boldly establish his view that job is a sinner, and moreover a secret onespuriously claiming purity before god 11. Only eliphaz and nehemiah only elihu and habakkuk habakkuk, nehemiah, and zophar isaiah, bildad, and ezekiel ezekiel, zophar, obadiah, and isaiah bildad, elihu, eliphaz, and zophar. He took part in each of the three controversies into which jobs friends entered with him job 8. Eliphazs dream 14 august 2019 17 may 2019 by ray hermann, d. The play unfolds as each man gives a long speech, and job responds to each with a speech of. The names of his friends are eliphaz, bildad, and zophar.
As the speeches progress, jobs friends increasingly berate him for refusing to confess his sins, although they themselves are at a loss as to which sin he has committed. Eliphaz thought that job must have sinned and that was why he was suffering. Speeches of eliphaz, bildad, and zophar jobs friends do not waver from their belief that job must have sinned to incite gods punishment. This long central portion of job is made up of three cycles of speeches, in which eliphaz, bildad and zophar speak, each receiving a response from job. Eliphaz,bildad, zophar,enosh most of the book of job is written in the form of. Job was suffering for some secret sin and was arrogant and foolish to plead his innocence. Do you tolerate them, react sharply to them or throw them out of your home. Eliphaz, bildad, and zophar article about eliphaz, bildad.
What did jobs three friends have wrong, and what did they have. But the writer of the book of job is not satisfied to live that way. Eliphaz, bildad, and zopharfalse accusers book of job. Bildad, elihu,eliphaz,zophar select the basic errors with which god charged jobs three friends. Every major character in the bookjob, eliphaz, bildad, zophar, and elihuassumed that god governed humankind on the basis of retribution. Jobs friends do not waver from their belief that job must have sinned to incite gods punishment. Book of job simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jobs three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar by zac poonen when job s three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar heard of his adversity, they came to visit him, saying they wanted to comfort him job 2. The book of job consider gods response to job in chapters 40 and 41. Giving the strongest of the three initial speeches, zophar declares that job deserved even worse than what he got.