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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 2:11 - 2:11
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Eliphaz - The view of Rawlinson that “the names of Job’s three friends represent the Chaldean times, about 700 b.c.,” cannot be accepted. Eliphaz is an Idumean name, Esau’s oldest son (Gen 36:4); and Teman, son of Eliphaz (Gen 36:15), called “duke.” Eusebius places Teman in Arabia-Petraea (but see on Job 6:19). Teman means “at the right hand”; and then the south, namely, part of Idumea; capital of Edom (Amo 1:12). Hebrew geographers faced the east, not the north as we do; hence with them “the right hand” was the south. Temanites were famed for wisdom (Jer 49:7). Baruch mentions them as “authors of fables” (namely, proverbs embodying the results of observation), and “searchers out of understanding.”
Bildad the Shuhite - Shuah (“a pit”), son of Abraham and Keturah (Gen 25:2). Ptolemy mentions the region Syccea, in Arabia-Deserta, east of Batanea.
Zophar the Naamathite - not of the Naamans in Judah (Jos 15:41), which was too distant; but some region in Arabia-Deserta. Fretelius says there was a Naamath in Uz.