Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 2:11

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11. 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 ( :- ); and Teman, son of Eliphaz ( :- ), called "duke." EUSEBIUS places Teman in Arabia-Petræa (but see on :- ). Teman means "at the right hand"; and then the south, namely, part of Idumea; capital of Edom ( :- ). 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 ( Jeremiah 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 ( Jeremiah 49:7- : ). PTOLEMY mentions the region Syccea, in Arabia-Deserta, east of Batanea. Zophar the Naamathite —not of the Naamans in Judah ( Jeremiah 49:7- : ), which was too distant; but some region in Arabia-Deserta. FRETELIUS says there was a Naamath in Uz. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-12" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

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bible-text/job-2-11

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• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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