Zophar

Gender: Male

Years: -1520 - -1520

Dictionary Text: Chirping, one of Job’s friends who came to condole with him in his distress. The LXX. render here “king of the Mineans” = Ma’in, Maonites,, in Southern Arabia. He is called a Naamathite, or an inhabitant of some unknown place called Naamah.

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Verses

• Job 20:1: Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
• Job 42:9: So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
• Job 11:1: Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
• Job 2:11: 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 him and to comfort him.