ZOPHAR

zo'-far (tsphar, meaning doubtful, supposed from root meaning "to leap"; Sophar): One of the three friends of Job who, hearing of his affliction, make an appointment together to visit and comfort him. He is from the tribe of Naamah, a tribe and place otherwise unknown, for as all the other friends and Job himself are from lands outside of Palestine, it is not likely that this place was identical with Naamah in the West of Judah (Joshua 15:41). He speaks but twice (Job 11; Job 20); by his silence the 3rd time the writer seems to intimate that with Bildad's third speech (Job 25; see under BILDAD) the friends' arguments are exhausted. He is the most impetuous and dogmatic of the three (compare Job 11:2, 3; Job 20:2, 3); stung to passionate response by Job's presumption in maintaining that he is wronged and is seeking light from God. His words are in a key of intensity amounting to reckless exaggeration. He is the first to accuse Job directly of wickedness; averring indeed that his punishment is too good for him (11:6); he rebukes Job's impious presumption in trying to find out the unsearchable secrets of God (11:7-12); and yet, like the rest of the friends, promises peace and restoration on condition of penitence and putting away iniquity (11:13-19). Even from this promise, however, he reverts to the fearful peril of the wicked (11:20); and in his 2nd speech, outdoing the others, he presses their lurid description of the wicked man's woes to the extreme (20:5-29), and calls forth a straight contradiction from Job, who, not in wrath, but in dismay, is constrained by loyalty to truth to acknowledge things as they are. Zophar seems designed to represent the wrong-headedness of the odium theologicum.

John Franklin Genung

6691. Tsophar -- one of Job's friends
... 6690, 6691. Tsophar or Tsophar. 6692 . one of Job's friends. Transliteration:
Tsophar or Tsophar Phonetic Spelling: (tso-far') Short Definition: Zophar. ... Zophar ...
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Job.
... In each of the three cycles of discussion with his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and
Zophar, each argues with Job except that Zophar remains silent in the third ...
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Job
... He longs to meet God, and to know why He so marvellously treats the creature He
so marvellously made (ix., x.). Zophar bluntly condemns Job's bold words and ...
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The Story of Job
... friends heard of all this trouble that had befallen him, they came each from his
own home: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite ...
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Job --Groping
... man. With the whole of the Book of Job in our hands, we know what neither
Job, nor Eliphaz, nor Bildad, nor Zophar, nor Elihu knew. ...
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'The End of the Lord'
... in that ye have not spoken of Me the thing which is right, like My servant Job.9.
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went ...
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"And we all do Fade as a Leaf, and Our Iniquities, Like the Wind ...
... "Know, therefore," saith Zophar, "God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquities
deserve." God exacteth not according to law, he craveth not according to the ...
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Brief Directions How to Read the Holy Scriptures once Every Year ...
... Zophar in Job saith, "If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hand towards
God to pray; if iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, and let no ...
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Letter xxxviii. To his Brother Gregory, Concerning the Difference ...
... The same moreover would have been the account that there is in the case of Bildad
the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and each of the men there mentioned. ...
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Here Followeth the History of Job
... and come to Job, came ever each one from his place to him, that one was named Eliphas
the Temanite, another Bildad the Shuhite, and the third, Zophar Naamathite ...
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How to Make Use of Christ as the Truth, for Growth in Knowledge.
... 6. Let them beware to imagine, that they shall be able to search out the Almighty
unto perfection, "Canst thou (said Zophar, Job 11:7, 8, 9.) by searching find ...
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Zophar

rising early; crown

Zophar

(sparrow), one of the three friends of Job. (Job 2:11; 11:1; 20:1; 42:9)

Zophar

One of Job's three friends, a native of some unknown place called Naamah. He appears but twice in the dialogue, once less than his two associates, whose general sentiments he shares, with perhaps more severity of judgment against Job, Job 2:11; 11:1-20; Job 20:1 29.

Chirping, one of Job's friends who came to condole with him in his distress (Job 2:11. The LXX. render here "king of the Mineans" = Ma'in, Maonites, Judges 10:12, in Southern Arabia). He is called a Naamathite, or an inhabitant of some unknown place called Naamah. Zophar (4 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ZOPHAR. ...Zophar seems designed to represent the
wrong-headedness of the odium theologicum. John Franklin Genung. ...
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Naamathite (4 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The designation of Zophar, one of Job's three friends
(Job 2:11; 11:1), so called from some place in Arabia, called Naamah probably. ...
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Na'amathite (3 Occurrences)
... Na'amathite (3 Occurrences). Job 11:1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered, (See
RSV). Job 20:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, (See RSV). ...
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Bildad (5 Occurrences)
... entered with him (Job 8:1; 18:1; 25:1), and delivered three speeches, very severe
and stern in their tone, although less violent than those of Zophar, but more ...
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Job's (11 Occurrences)
... friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own
place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite ...
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Temanite (8 Occurrences)
... friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own
place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite ...
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Shuhite (5 Occurrences)
... friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own
place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite ...
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Eliphaz (14 Occurrences)
... friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own
place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite ...
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Zophim (2 Occurrences)

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Zophai (1 Occurrence)

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Zophar (4 Occurrences)

Job 2:11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: 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.
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Job 11:1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
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Job 20:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
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Job 42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
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Sarcasm: Zophar to Job

Zophar

Zophar: One of Job's Three Friends

Naamathite (4 Occurrences)

Na'amathite (3 Occurrences)

Bildad (5 Occurrences)

Job's (11 Occurrences)

Temanite (8 Occurrences)

Shuhite (5 Occurrences)

Eliphaz (14 Occurrences)

Zophim (2 Occurrences)

Zophai (1 Occurrence)

Naamah (5 Occurrences)

Job (60 Occurrences)

Te'manite (5 Occurrences)

Eli'phaz (7 Occurrences)

Check (9 Occurrences)

Appointment (16 Occurrences)

Sympathize (3 Occurrences)

Homes (43 Occurrences)

Backslide

Troubles (94 Occurrences)

Accepted (82 Occurrences)

Comfort (130 Occurrences)

Accept (106 Occurrences)

Answereth (144 Occurrences)

Met (118 Occurrences)

Friends (152 Occurrences)

Old (3966 Occurrences)

Testament (13 Occurrences)

Adam (29 Occurrences)

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