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Teman District
| Name | ELIPHAZ |
| Aliases | THE TEMANITE / ELDEST OF JOB'S FRIENDS / WHO LEANED ON A NIGHT VISION |
| Status | COUNSELOR TO JOB / REBUKED BY GOD, THEN PRAYED FOR BY JOB |
| Birth | UNRECORDED | Marks & Identifiers | THE FRIEND WHO APPEALED TO A NIGHT VISION |
| Place of Birth | TEMAN (EDOM) | Hair | UNRECORDED |
| Tribe | NONE (A TEMANITE) | Eyes | UNRECORDED |
| Parentage | OF TEMAN IN EDOM | People | THE PEOPLES OF THE EAST |
| Occupation | COUNSELOR / SPEAKER OF WISDOM | Species | HUMAN |
| Affiliation | THE THREE FRIENDS OF JOB | Calling | THE ELDEST COMFORTER WHOSE COUNSEL WENT ASTRAY |
| Primary Mission | PERSUADE JOB THAT SUFFERING PROVES SIN | Known Signs | THE VISION IN THE NIGHT / THE REBUKE FROM GOD |
| Covenant Role | A WARNING OF CONFIDENT BUT WRONG COUNSEL | Divine Access | INDIRECT / GOD JUDGED HIS WORDS AT THE LAST |
| Divine Encounter Level | INDIRECT | Wisdom Classification | THE ELDEST COUNSELOR |
| Covenant Status | MISJUDGED GOD'S WAYS | Known Miracles | NONE RECORDED |
| Divine Commission | CONDEMNED | Threat Assessment | HIS RIGID RETRIBUTION / MISREADING JOB |
| Mission Status | REBUKED / NEEDING JOB'S PRAYER | Archive Category | WISDOM / MISTAKEN COUNSEL |
What he claimed a spirit whispered to him: CAN A MORTAL BE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD?
God's verdict on his speeches: YOU HAVE NOT SPOKEN RIGHTLY, AS MY SERVANT JOB
The subject was the Temanite, the eldest and first to speak of the three friends who came to sit with Job in his grief and then entered the great debate over his suffering.
He began gently, recalling how Job had strengthened others, but soon argued that the innocent do not perish, and that trouble is reaped by those who plow iniquity.
He appealed to a vision in the night, a spirit that made his hair stand up, asking whether a mortal could be righteous before God, and urged Job to seek God, who wounds but binds up.
As the debate hardened, he accused Job outright of great wickedness, imagining crimes of oppression and greed to explain his ruin, though none of it was true.
There was truth in his words about God's greatness and justice, but wrongly aimed at a righteous sufferer. At the end the LORD rebuked the subject and his companions for not speaking rightly of Him, and had them bring offerings while Job prayed for them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
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- Even a true principle becomes a lie when forced onto the wrong case.
- Do not assume that a person's suffering measures their guilt.
- Confident spiritual experience is no substitute for speaking rightly of God.
