Topic
Zophar
14 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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- Job 2:11Easton · Smith · Nave One of Job' s three friends
¶ 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 the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with…
- Job 11:1–20ISBE · Nave One of Job' s three friends
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? For thou hast said,…
- Job 20:1–29ISBE · Nave One of Job' s three friends
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. Knowest thou not this of old, since man…
- Joshua 15:41ISBE
And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
- Judges 10:12Easton
The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
- Job 11:1Smith
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
- Job 11:2ISBE
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
- Job 11:3ISBE
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- Job 20:1Smith
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
- Job 20:2ISBE
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
- Job 20:3ISBE
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
- Job 25:1–6ISBE
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that…
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- Job 42:7–9 Nave One of Job' s three friends
- Job 42:9 Smith
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 2 references
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, Judg. 10:12, in Southern Arabia). He is called a Naamathite, or an inhabitant of some unknown place called Naamah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 4 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 13 references
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 (Jos 15:41). He speaks but twice (Job 11; 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; 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
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.