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| | Eliphaz (2) (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools |
 | | He is represented as a venerable and benignant sage from Teman in Idumaea, a place noted for its wisdom (compare Jeremiah 49:7), as was also the whole land of Edom (compare Obadiah 1:8); and doubtless it is the writer's design to make his words typical of the best wisdom of the world. |
 | | This wisdom is the result of ages of thought and experience (compare Job 15:17-19), of long and ripened study (compare Job 5:27), and claims the authority of revelation, though only revelation of a secondary kind (compare Eliphaz' vision, Job 4:12 ff., and his challenge to Job to obtain the like, Job 5:1). |
 | | In his second speech he is irritated because Job's blasphemous words are calculated to hinder devotion (Job 15:4), attributes them to iniquity (Job 15:5-6), reiterates his depravity doctrine (Job 15:14-16), and initiates the lurid descriptions of the wicked man's fate, in which the friends go on to overstate their case (Job 15:20-35). |
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